Structural elements

How are pilars

• Are round or rectangular

• Are cylindrical and usually have a decorative as well as structural function

• Sit on pillars and transfer the weight of the slabs or the roof

Arches are a bulb using a temporary structure called a centring

• TRUE

• FALSE

Vaults are built by using a series of arches in a line

• FALSE

• TRUE

Joists :Are used to create open spaces between columns for openings,windows or doors in walls .They were also called architraves in classical architecture.

• TRUE

• FALSE

What are pilasters

• does not exist

• Sit on pillars and transfer the weight of the slabs or the roof

• are columns or pillars which are part of the wall

There are two or three dimensional narrow

elements

• True

• False

the process in them resist compression street and so are usually made of materials like...

• minerals

• stone

• cement

• nothing

In ancient times, stone was the most common construction material ,

• TRUE

• FALSE

lintels could not be very ...

• Long

• small

We have had the structures 1 divided into 4 parts, columns, beams and ...

• Stone

• Arches

• triangulated