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    A basket-handle arch is characterized by an intrados profile formed by a sequence of circular arcs, each tangent to its neighbors, resulting in a smooth...
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    called a surbased arch (sometimes also a depressed arch). A drop arch is either a basket handle arch or a blunt arch. The practical arch bridges are built...
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    the two arch ribs lean together and shorten the distance between the arches near the top, the span is a basket handle arch bridge. Many tied-arch bridges...
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    Thomas Viaduct (category Stone arch bridges in the United States)
    making it one of the oldest railroad bridges still in service. This Basket-handle arch stone bridge with three centers is divided into eight spans. The bridge...
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    upper floors. The door jambs are decorated with sculptures framed in basket-handle arches, which depict characters holding phylacteries or sitting in gardens...
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    supports. The Baroque added to the round-arched and rectangular light- openings those in the shape of a basket-handle arch and even of an oval shape, and sought...
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    southern façade is pierced, on the ground floor, with a portal with a basket-handle arch framed by semicircular bays, framed by large lanterns like the other...
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  • Zhaoqing Bridge (category Arch bridges in China)
    railway-only arch bridge and, together with the Mingzhou Bridge, the second largest steel box arch after the Lupu Bridge in Shanghai. The basket handle arch carries...
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    Masonry bridge (category Arch bridges)
    oldest bridge that is still in use in Paris. During this period, the basket-handle arch, which is a curve with three or more centers, was introduced, although...
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    of two kete, or basket handles, one on each side of Anzac Parade, which places them approximately 100 m apart. The image of a basket carried by two people...
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