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This paper presents a geometric, constructive and structural analysis, of the Encarnación church dome in Montefrío, Granada (Spain). It’s a hemispherical dome, built of stone in the 18th century; the result of the confluence of three trends at that time: Bourbon centralism, illustrated academicism and architectural neoclassicism. Its diameter is approximately 30 m, it is considered to be a replica of the Pantheon in Rome, having been the largest stone dome in the world, since the bombing in 1943 of St. Hedwig’s Cathedral dome in Berlin, until the construction in 2008 of the Global Vipassana Pagoda in India. We present the geometric modelling of the dome, taken from three-dimensional scanning applied to architectural research. We also include an analysis of the mechanical behaviour of the dome is made, analytics and graphically according hypothesis of Rankine-Schwedler, including detailed graphical diagrams.
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Suarez, J., Bravo, R., González, J.A. (2019). Graphical Analysis of the Structural Behavior, According Hypothesis of Rankine-Schwedler, of a Large Stone Dome in Granada (Spain). In: Cocchiarella, L. (eds) ICGG 2018 - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Geometry and Graphics. ICGG 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 809. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95588-9_91
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