The Pont du Gard carries an aqueduct on three tiers of arches

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1. Story
2. The bridge over the Gardon is built in three superimposed arcades to carry the Nimes aqueduct across the valley. It demonstrates the arch used as infrastructure rather than ornament: each arch in an arcade pushes against its neighbour, so only the end piers need heavy abutment, and the whole tiered structure is dry-laid cut stone with the channel on top falling at a very shallow gradient.
3. Knowledge
4. Pont du Gard
5. The voussoir arch
6. The Pont du Gard carries an aqueduct on three tiers of arches
7. Connections
8. Pont du Gard
9. The voussoir arch
10. The voussoir arch
11. The Roman Aqueduct System
12. The Pont du Gard carries an aqueduct on three tiers of arches
13. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
14. Pont du Gard
15. Load path
16. Corbelling (the false arch and false dome)
17. Corbelling (the false arch and false dome)
18. The dome
19. The Gothic rib vault
20. Roman builders adopt pozzolanic concrete
21. The Pont du Gard carries an aqueduct on three tiers of arches
22. The Colosseum opens: arch and concrete at civic scale
23. Evidence
24. Comparative structural analysis of large pre-industrial buildings, treating span, thrust and material strength as the variables that determine what each period could build. Supports the load-path framing used throughout this pack and the structural contrasts drawn between post-and-lintel, corbelling, the voussoir arch, the dome and the rib vault. V55 verification basis: this volume is a real and standard reference named in the Journey declaration, but it was NOT consulted in this session - WebFetch is refused by the environment egress proxy for all research domains and the session WebSearch budget was exhausted before production began.