Design

Kansas’s Stone Arch Bridge Tradition — Part 1

While one of the first (if not the first) stone arch bridges in Kansas was built in Leavenworth during the Civil War, most of …

There are many advantages to using solid backing for arching in stone arch bridge construction. The "backing" is the fill or …

Stone arch bridges made of limestone suffer greatly from deterioration of the stonework at the waterline. Limestone is a soft, …

In our last post, we described the class of so-called "basket-handle" arches: The basket-handle arch basically forms a compromise …