Sentence examples for masonry tower from inspiring English sources

Rudyerd's lighthouse was followed by John Smeaton's famous masonry tower in 1759.

This paper discusses the problem of parametric identification of a historic masonry tower model.

A comparative numerical study on a twelfth century masonry tower called "Matildea bell tower" located in northern Italy was described by Milani et al. (2012).

In a first application, the model is used to simulate the long-term behaviour of a masonry tower.

The present paper deals with the definition and development of a numerical model of the bell tower and with its analysis for the evaluation of the seismic performances of this historical masonry tower.

This paper offers a contribution to the issue of monitoring and analysis of monumental masonry tower, by discussing an experimental investigation survey made on an illustrative masonry tower: the Italian Medieval "Torre Grossa" (Big Tower) of San Gimignano in Toscana Italyy).

The deck, designed for two carriageways, was suspended by iron chains from masonry towers at either end.

He reworked the original design, adding structural elements like the masonry towers with their dome-shaped tops.

His father put him in charge of the construction of the enormous masonry towers that supported the cables of the Cincinnati Covington Bridge (1865 67) and then sent him to Europe to study new methods for the sinking of the foundations on which the granite towers of the Brooklyn Bridge were to stand.

Besides that, the report said, a landmark designation can threaten the very building it is intended to protect, since masonry towers built before World War II suffer from the "inherent vice" of materials that have reached the end of their life spans or were assembled with insufficient safeguards against moisture, weathering and wear.

Following the Eddystone, masonry towers were erected in similar open-sea sites, which include the Smalls, off the Welsh coast; Bell Rock in Scotland South Rockk in Ireland; and Minots Ledge off Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. The first lighthouse of the North American continent, built in 1716, was on the island of Little Brewster, also off Boston.