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SUMMARY:Fan Vaults - Professor Jacques Heyman
DTSTART:20190122T150000Z
DTEND:20190122T160000Z
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CONTACT:Karen Mitchell
DESCRIPTION:The presence of flying buttresses exposes the obvious structur
 al skeleton of a large Gothic cathedral\, but any masonry structure hides 
 a skeleton of some sort. This engineering structure may be determined by v
 ery simple statics\, and the whole analysis can be interpreted by the use 
 of the “safe theorem” of plastic theory.\n\nUntil his retirement Jacqu
 es Heyman was Professor and Head of the Department of Engineering at the U
 niversity of Cambridge. He is the author of sixteen books and co-author of
  two others\, and has written numerous articles on the plastic design of s
 teel structures\, masonry construction\, general structural theory\, and t
 he history of structural engineering. He is a Fellow of the Society of Ant
 iquaries\, of the Institution of Civil Engineers and of the Royal Academy 
 of Engineering. He has been the Consulting Engineer for the repair of a la
 rge number of English cathedrals and churches. Professor Heyman was for ma
 ny years a member of the Architectural Advisory Panel for Westminster Abbe
 y\, and of the Cathedrals Fabric Commission for England.
LOCATION: Cambridge University Engineering Department\, Lecture Room 3A
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