🌉 Canal Aqueduct Statics: Trough Load, Arch Thrust Line and the Floating Boat
Walk a narrowboat across a three-arch stone aqueduct and see where the weight goes: water, clay lining and masonry load the arches, the thrust line must stay inside the ring, and a floating boat adds no load at all in an open trough.
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⚙ Under the hood
Walk a narrowboat across a three-arch stone aqueduct and see where the weight goes: water, clay lining and masonry load the arches, the thrust line must stay inside the ring, and a floating boat adds no load at all in an open trough.
AqueductMasonry ArchThrust LineArchimedesHydrostaticsCanalEnglandUK heritageThree.jsBlender
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