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Isaac Kremer/ November 23, 2025/ / 0 comments

The American method of building a skew arch by constructing a number of short right arches adjoining each other, each one springing from a skewback which is ahead of or back of its neighbor. This is to avoid the use of spiral joints between the voussoirs, a construction which prevails in European practice. (Bridge, 2019)

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