... and preserving these valuable structures. Unfortunately, the relevant literature is fragmented and incomplete, leaving masonry bridges orphaned of doctrine and of treatment in modern codes. Based on a comprehensive review of some European treatises, especially Spanish and French ones, published in the sixteenth...

...Javier León; Benedetta Orfeo; Leonardo Todisco; Patrick Miner In Europe, stone masonry bridges make up a significant part of heritage infrastructures. Their design and construction were the subject of several European treatises published in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. However...