flying buttress

Examples of flying buttress in the following topics:

• Gothic Metalwork and Ivory Carvings

  • Compared to Gothic architecture, which was better known for its large dramatic features such as flying buttresses and elaborate stained glass, metal and ivory art work was often more diminutive—but it was still quite striking.
  • Notre Dame is one of the first buildings to use a flying buttress, which became characteristic of Gothic architecture.

• Painting and Architecture

  • In France, Gothic architecture emerged and was characterized by dramatic flying buttresses, lancet archways, an increased use of stain glass, and elevated heights for civic and religious buildings.

• Italian Architecture 1200-1400

  • Other characteristics of the Gothic style include the increased use of flying buttresses to support walls, and a shift towards more slender and ornate columns, and vaulted ceilings.

• Architecture

  • The desire to increase window space drove the development of new structural techniques, which constitute most of the other distinctive features of the style: pointed arches, rib vaults, buttresses and pinnacles.
  • Flying buttresses area common feature of Gothic architecture, supporting thinner walls and higher buildings.

• Cathedrals

  • With thinner walls, larger windows, and high pointed arched vaults, the distinctive flying buttresses developed as a means of support.

• Gothic Architecture: The Abbey Church of Saint Denis

  • To achieve his aims, Suger's masons drew on the new elements that had evolved or been introduced to Romanesque architecture: the pointed arch, the ribbed vault, the ambulatory with radiating chapels, the clustered columns supporting ribs springing in different directions, and the flying buttresses, which enabled the insertion of large clerestory windows.

• Gothic Cathedrals

  • The increase in the use of large windows during the Gothic period is directly related to the use of the pointed arch, the ribbed vault, and the flying buttress.

• African Trypanosomiasis

  • Sleeping sickness is caused by a protozoa transmitted by the tsetse fly.
  • The tsetse fly (genus Glossina) is a large, brown, biting fly that serves as both a host and vector for the trypanosome parasites .
  • While taking blood from a mammalian host, an infected tsetse fly injects metacyclic trypomastigotes into skin tissue.
  • A tsetse fly becomes infected with bloodstream trypomastigotes when taking a blood meal on an infected mammalian host.
  • The epimastigotes reach the fly's salivary glands and continue multiplication by binary fission.The entire life cycle of the fly takes about three weeks.

• Architecture of Djenne

  • Built with imposing façades with pilaster-like buttresses, many have elaborate arrangements of pinnacles forming a parapet above the entrance door.
  • Many houses built before 1900 are in the Toucouleur-style and have a massive covered porch set between two large buttresses.
  • The eastern wall is roughly three feet thick and is strengthened on the exterior by eighteen buttresses.
  • The corners are formed by rectangular shaped buttresses topped by pinnacles.

• Relative Velocity

  • Galileo observed the concept of relative velocity by using an example of a fly and a boat.
  • He observed that while you are aboard the boat, if you see a fly, you can measure its velocity, $u$.
  • Is the velocity of the fly, $u$, the actual velocity of the fly?
  • No, because what you measured was the velocity of the fly relative to the velocity of the boat.
  • To obtain the velocity of the fly relative to the shore, $s$, you can use the vector sum as shown: $s=u+v$