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Chaired by:
Dr Bill Addis, Member of the editorial panel for Engineering History and Heritage
Speaker:
Professor Santiago Huerta, Professor of Structural Design, Polytechnic University of Madrid
Professor Santiago Huerta was born in Madrid in 1955. In 1989 he entered the School of Architecture, Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM). Since 1993 he has held the position of Professor of Structural Design. He is a consultant engineer in many restorations of historical constructions including: the Cathedral of Tudela, San Juan de los Reyes in Toledo, la Basílica de los Desamparados, cathedral of Santiago de Compostela and medieval bridges.
Since 1995 Professor Huerta has been the editor of the series of the Instituto Juan de Herrera, “Textos sobre teoría e historia de las construcciones”, Texts on the theory and history of building construction, with books by classical and modern authors. In 1997 Santiago became the co-founder and Secretary of the Spanish Society of Construction History, and since 2003 has been President of the Society.
In 2003 Santiago was awarded the Culture Prize of the Architectural Association of Madrid for the book Las bóvedas de Guastavino en América. He has conducted research in arches, vaults and domes, masonry vaulted architecture in general, and on the history of structural theory, and in 2004 published a book summarizing this research.
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Date
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12 MARCH 2012
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Time
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18:00 - 19:35
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Event Type
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Lecture
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Free Event
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The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is pleased to announce that following his receipt of the Telford Medal,Professor Santiago Huerta will present his paper, The Safety of Masonry Buttresses at a lecture on Monday 12 March 2012
An architect or engineer assessing the structural safety of a historical construction needs to estimate the safety of the buttress system with accuracy, this is not an easy matter. Among other possible failures, a buttress may fracture under certain conditions with a substantial loss of stability, it may show a certain leaning or it may be separated from the wall. Furthermore, buttress systems are complex structures – a combination of walls and counterforts, flying buttresses, etc. – made of different types of masonry, and their assessment cannot be handled in an abstract way.
This paper outlines the development of buttress design since around 1700 to explain the main approaches used and to provide a historical context. It then goes on to summarise the state-of-the-art in modern masonry buttress analysis and to discuss estimations of safety.
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