Bond An arrangement of masonry units to provide strength, stability, and in some cases, beauty Common bond /American bond: Every fifth or sixth course consists of headers, the other courses being stretchers ...
Bond Beam - A reinforced concrete beam made inside a course of hollow blockwork from which the block ends and internal walls have been removed. The beam ties the wall together Bond Course - A course of headers in a brickwork or blockwork wall ...
Bond - A term adopted to describe the various patterns used to lay bricks in order to give them maximum strength.
Bond The regular arrangement of bricks or stones in a wall so that the structure is physically joined together. The principal types of 'bond' used in domestic construction being English, Flemish, header, stretcher or garden wall bond.
Bond The regular arrangements of bricks, blocks or stones in a wall so that the units may be joined together.
BOND The way in which brick courses are laid: Header: brick laid so that the end only appears on the face of the wall. Stretcher: brick laid so that the side only appears on the face of the wall.
Bond Refers to the pattern formed by mortar joints between bricks, blocks or stones. Bricks Common building blocks made from clay burnt in a kiln.
Bond The arrangement of masonry that forms a regular pattern to provide strength, stability and in some cases decorative form. Bracket ...
bond - the pattern in which bricks are laid for the sake of solidity as well as design. brace - a diagonal stabilizing member of a building frame.
Bond (F adhérence, R aderenta) Adherence between materials such as bricks/mortar, or plies of felt, or between felts and other elements of roof systems, which use bitumen or other materials as the cementing agent ...
Flemish bond: a pattern of brickwork in which the long side of the brick is laid alternated with the end of the brick ...
Flemish Bond a type of brickwork in which alternate headers and stretchers in each course appear on the wall face. Foliated ...
English bond - A particularly strong method of building walls by laying bricks together in staggered alternating courses using headers and stretchers. Back to top ...
FLEMISH BOND In brickwork, a bond in which each course (row) consists of headers (butt end) and stretchers (long side) laid alternately, each header being centered on the stretcher above and below it.
Bond The bond is the way in which bricks are arranged in a wall, it is necessary to prevent the vertical joints in two consecutive courses being positioned directly above one another, as this weakens the construction.
Bond- Boutant - type of support. An arc-boutant, or flying buttress, serves to sustain a vault, and is self-sustained by some strong wall or massive work. A pillar boutant is a large chain or jamb of stone, made to support a wall, terrace, or vault.
Bond tenant a tenant who was bound to provide a labour service as part of his tenure; later changed to a money payment Boss ...
Bond - brickwork with overlapping bricks. Types of bond include stretcher, English, header, Flemish, garden wall, herringbone, basket, American, and Chinese.
English bond A pattern of brickwork with alternate courses of headers and stretchers.
"English bond" has an alternating course of headers and stretchers in which the headers are centered on stretchers. The joints between stretchers line up vertically in all courses.
English bond: with alternate courses of headers and stretchers exposed. English garden wall bond: with one course of headers for every three or more courses of stretchers. Flemish bond: with alternating stretchers and headers showing.
an archaic word for bond [1] [3] [4] [from Old Norse band; related to Old High German bant fetter; see bend1, bond] band (bnd) ...
Blockhouse: Small square fortification, usually of timber bond overlapping arrangement of bricks in courses (flemish, dutch, french, etc.) Bonnet: Freestanding fortification; priest's cap.
It is through these qualities, indeed, that man is, by a singular prerogative, preferred to all sensible creatures, and is joined also, by a bond of unity, to those incapable of sensitivity.
The tas-de-charge, or solid springer, had two advantages: (1) it enabled the stone courses to run straight through the wall, so as to bond the whole together much better; and (2) it Iessened the span of the vault, ...
Bond says, "it is equally plain that the obligation is almost wholly to the English and not to the French part of that design" (op. cit., VII, 111-12), for not all of Canterbury choir is French, ...
Aalto: Alvar Aalto, Father of Modern Scandinavian Architecture Bond: J. Max Bond, Jr., New York Visionary Brown: Denise Scott Brown, Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates Burnham: Daniel Burnham, Chicago Planner ...
Debenture - A loan bond which is not a specific lien upon any of the real property of the issuer and for the collection of which no remedy exists save the ordinary action of law.
Caming: Lead strips which bond small pieces of decorative glass in windows. Casement: A window with side hinges that cranks outward from either the right or left.
This is similar to the Bloomfield residence in that it is a simple center plan of common bond red brick. Instead of the frontispiece, there is a long, ornate front verandah and a large cornice with paired modillions.
Parpen, parpent, or parpend - A stone which passes through a wall with two smooth vertical faces. Also called a 'through stone or bond stone'. San Carlo Theatre - Naples Versailles, South parterre - Le Notre ...
See also: Brick, House, Architecture, Frame, Ground
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