- Look up
counterfort in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Counterfort may
refer to: A
Buttress A
defensive fortification, such as
constructed by a besieging...
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forces arising out of
inadequately braced roof structures. The term
counterfort can be
synonymous with
buttress and is
often used when
referring to dams...
- abutment, size
between full
height and stub
abutment Counterfort abutment,
similar to
counterfort retaining walls Spill-through abutment,
vertical buttresses...
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Sometimes cantilevered walls are
buttressed on the front, or
include a
counterfort on the back, to
improve their strength resisting high loads. Buttresses...
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Christ Pantacrator (reminiscent of its
Byzantine era). Its
strengthening counterforts that work like buttresses, are
shaped as
paired columns to
lighten their...
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casualties en
route from St Symeon to Antioch. Bohemond's
troops built a
counterfort outside Saint Paul's Gate in Antioch's
northeast wall to
protect themselves...
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walls include 25
towers with
quadrangular base,
which also
served as
counterforts.
Inside is an aljibe, a
rainwater tank
including a
cistern to collect...
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Preservation Committee. Liggett, Barbara; Laumark,
Sandra (1979). "The
Counterfort at Fort Mifflin".
Bulletin of the ****ociation for
Preservation Technology...
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streets of old cities; in fortification, an arch
built on the tops of
counterforts behind the
bastion walls intended to
limit the
scope of the potential...
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which enclosed an
inner court, and that was
delimited by 2
towers and a
counterfort. Moreover,
exterior to the bastion, a
trait of
boundary wall was easily...
