Author, as appears in the article.: Samper, Albert; Gonzalez, Genaro; Herrera, Blas
Department: Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura Enginyeria Mecànica Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques
URV's Author/s: González Baixauli, Genaro / Herrera Gómez, Blas / Samper Sosa, Albert
Keywords: Rankine Palau güell Geometric determination Conics Catenary Architectural arch
Abstract: © 2016 Elsevier Masson SAS We provide a method to objectively determine which is the geometric shape which best fits an arch of a heritage building within each of the conical curve types – ellipse, hyperbola, parabola – and hyperbolic-cosine curve types – catenary, hyperbolic cosine, Rankine –, and we also provide an objective measurement of that fit. This method does not involve mechanical, constructive or structural processes; it only involves standard geometric processes, numerical processes, computing, statistics and 3D data acquisition. Using these techniques, we generate a method, which allows an objective determination of an arch's geometry in a heritage building. For architectural and historical reasons, and also due to discrepancies regarding the arch's geometry, as an application case for this method we have chosen the arch on the façade of Palau Güell (1886–1890) in Barcelona, a heritage building designed by Antoni Gaudí.
Thematic Areas: Spectroscopy Materials science, multidisciplinary Materials science (miscellaneous) Interdisciplinar History Historia Geosciences, multidisciplinary General economics,econometrics and finance Engenharias ii Engenharias i Economics, econometrics and finance (miscellaneous) Economics, econometrics and finance (all) Conservation Comunicação e informação Computer science applications Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas Ciências ambientais Ciência da computação Chemistry, analytical Chemistry (miscellaneous) Biotecnología Astronomia / física Arts Art and art history Art Archeology (arts and humanities) Archaeology Antropologia / arqueologia Antropología Anthropology
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 12962074
Author's mail: albert.samper@urv.cat blas.herrera@urv.cat genaro.gonzalez@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-4795-2127 0000-0003-2924-9195 0000-0002-1301-7210
Record's date: 2025-02-19
Paper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Paper original source: Journal Of Cultural Heritage. 25 56-64
APA: Samper, Albert; Gonzalez, Genaro; Herrera, Blas (2017). Determination of the geometric shape which best fits an architectural arch within each of the conical curve types and hyperbolic-cosine curve types: The case of Palau Güell by Antoni Gaudí. Journal Of Cultural Heritage, 25(), 56-64. DOI: 10.1016/j.culher.2016.11.015
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2017
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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