Novice asking for engineer overview of the Great Pyramid
Novice asking for engineer overview of the Great Pyramid
(OP)
of Egypt.
I would be greatful if someone with a structural engineering background could answer structural questions regarding the Great Pyramid of Egypt.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/2451/pyramid/khufu.htm (see figure 6)
http://www.hitchins.co.uk/Relieving.html
http://www.mars.sphere.ne.jp/p-inpaku/Pyramid/sub81.htm
My question concerns the horizontal lintels (5 of them before you get up to the apex-style header stones). What structural purpose would the 5 lintels provide?
Thanks in advance.
JL
I would be greatful if someone with a structural engineering background could answer structural questions regarding the Great Pyramid of Egypt.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/2451/pyramid/khufu.htm (see figure 6)
http://www.hitchins.co.uk/Relieving.html
http://www.mars.sphere.ne.jp/p-inpaku/Pyramid/sub81.htm
My question concerns the horizontal lintels (5 of them before you get up to the apex-style header stones). What structural purpose would the 5 lintels provide?
Thanks in advance.
JL






RE: Novice asking for engineer overview of the Great Pyramid
From your first link there appears to be different chambers between each "lintel"; each having it's own name. It appears as though there only purpose was to provide different chambers.
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Andrew
RE: Novice asking for engineer overview of the Great Pyramid
IOW, the contention if Egytpologists is that the 5 Lintels "tie together" the two walls because of either currently existing lateral forces or future ones (earthquake).
JL