La mecánica ilustrada en los ingenieros militares espa?oles. El proyecto de los almacenes de pólvora (1715-1798)

摘要

The catenary arches were part of the great structural success of the modernist architecture, and especially in the Gaudí’s work. The study of the Spanish military engineers’ projects shows that they were the first that introduced in the Spanish territory in the first third of the eighteenth century. Knowledge and the attempt to apply this type of structure, especially in the construction of Powder-Magazines, will demonstrate the knowledge of the scientific theory of these structures made by Hooke. The study of pre-scientific Mechanics was claimed by Juan de Herrera in the Academy of Mathematics (1583), as it is scientific Mechanics at the Academy of Barcelona (1720). For this reason and due to the use of catenary arch and vault, this will show that they provided the bases of modern mechanic.