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A camber beam is much stronger than another of the same size, since being laid with the hollow side downwards, as they usually are, they form a kind of supporting arch.
Camber - Of a horizontal timber, usually a tie-beam or a collar-beam, in which the centre is higher than the ends.
Campanile - A bell tower or any tower containing a bell, generally attached to a church.
camber arch - an arch with a straight horizontal extrados and a slightly arched intrados
corbel arch - (architecture) an arch constructed of masonry courses that are corbelled until they meet ...
CAMBER BEAMS: tie beams with sufficient curvature to allow a roof to be constructed directly on top, without any further superstructure, while yet providing an angle of pitch just great enough to enable the roof to drain.
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CamberSlight rise or upward curve in place of a horizontal line or plane.CamesLead strips joining pieces of window glass.Campanile(Italian): Free-standing bell-tower.Candle-snuffer roofConical roof of a turret.
The flat roofing tile became the most common, but the earliest tile systems used by the Romans involved a large cambered tile and a narrower semi cylindrical tile.
An arch having a horizontal intrados with voussoirs radiating from a center below, often built with a slight camber to allow for setting. Also know as a õjack archö.
flat roof
A pitch less roof type most favorable in dry climates.
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