POST AND LINTEL

Orianna RománGabriela Pérez

Post and Lintel, also known as “support and lintel” or “trabeated”

This mechanism is being used since centuries ago.

The “trabeated” system is a fundamental principle of Neolithic,

Ancient Greece and Egyptian architecture.

POST OR COLUMN

• It is vertical and elongated and it can support both vertical loads as horizontal forces.

• A column generally works under flex compression or traction.

• Its section is circular. A quadrangular section is usually called pillar.

• The classic column is formed by 3 elements: base, shaft and capital.

POST

Construction materials:

Wood

Steel

Concrete

Classification:• According to the relationship with

other elements of the building

Isolated Column Attached Column Embedded Column

• According to architectonic classic orders:

Doric Column Ionic Column Corinthian Column

Tuscan Column Composed Column

• According to the shaft of each:

Smooth Column Column Ribbed Column Fasciculata

Clustered Column Roman Column Roman Column

BEAM OR LINTEL

Horizontal structural element that leaves a space between two

supportsOpens up holes in the walls to form doors and windows

LINTEL

Lintel Architecture

Examples of architecture in lintel

Egypt

Greece

Examples of architecture in lintel

Door, entrance, ceiling or wallLimitellu

s

Columns

LINTEL

LINTELEuler-Bernoulli

TheoryFor mechanical beam flexion

Theory that allows the calculation of stresses and deformations in beams

Construction materials:Wood

Steel

Concrete

It can take transverse loadsIt works under flexion

Its supports are in its ends

Hardens the wallsIts height is equal to the thickness of the floor and its width is equal to the wall´s

Characteristics:

Classification

Supported Beam

Continuous Beam

Foundation Beam

Clamping Beam

Ridge beam

Banked Beam Beam snub

Classification

Post and Lintel

Post and Lintel

Conclusion

Nowadays this method is the most commonly used for the creation of the edification´s structure. The use of both column and lintel together

provide rigidity to the structure, for this reason both are used as a mechanism for construction.

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