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Moment - a force multiplied by a lever arm, producing a turning effect.1! ! Retaining wall - a structure used to sustain the pressure of the earth behind it or to lateral pressure.2!
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Pad Footing - an isolated foundation that is square or rectangular in plan and used to distribute point loads to the ground.! Steel rods are usually used to reinforce the footing and ensure a strong connection of the adjoining fixture to the pad footing.3!
! Strip footing - a continuous foundation of which the length considerably exceeds the breadth. ! ! Slab-on-grade - a concrete slab placed on grade, sometimes having insulation board or an impervious membrane beneath it. ! ! 4
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Substructure - the foundation of a building that supports the superstructure.6! !
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New School of Design Building
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Queen’s College
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Frank Tate Pavilion
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Old Geology South Lecture Theatre
Oval Pavilion (north side)
Column and beam structures (all of above):!
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Old Geology: the brick facade is not structural, the building is actually supported by coated steel column and beam structural system. !
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Redmond Barry: the columns are visible form the outside, whereas the SoD columns are seen inside the building.
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New School of Design Building
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John Smyth Building: Masonry Weep holes: build in here above the door from/below the floor of the flooring of the level above. !
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These weep holes indicate that this addition to the John Smyth building is a cavity construction. !
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Stretcher bond with a brick-oneedge course above the door frame.
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Beaurepaire Centre Pool Extensions:!
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It is visible that the left part of the photo is an extension to the original building because the bricks in the corner are not bonded together.
English Bond:! These bricks have been laid in an English bond, where every second row the header face is showing, alternating courses of headers and stretchers = a solid wall. It is the strongest bond for a one-brickthick wall.
Longer bricks were used for a while but were not liked by builders so not many buildings are seen around Melbourne with this type of brick.
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1888 Building
I’ve always thought that the decorative patterned corners were a different material, a stone. The light pattern is just rendered bricks, so the construction of the corners was no different to the rest of the visible brick walls.
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North Court Union House
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Cracked bricks: expansion
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1, 3 - Gorse, C. A., Johnston, D., & Pritchard, M. (Hons), PhD. (2012). A dictionary of construction, surveying, and civil engineering [electronic resource] / by Christopher Gorse, David Johnston, Martin Pritchard. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. !
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2, 5, 4, 6 - Dictionaryofconstruction.com, (2014). What is retaining wall? definition and meaning. [online] Available at: http:// www.dictionaryofconstruction.com/definition/retaining-wall.html [Accessed 21 Aug. 2014].
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