Diagnosisandrepairofa_省略_tonemasonryarch.pdfVIP

1 INTRODUCTION The D. Zameiro Bridge is a Mediaeval multi-span arch bridge over the Ave River, near the city of Vila do Conde, located about 40 km North of Porto, in the Northern part of Portugal. The bridge has a humpback pavement, supported by eight stone masonry arches of different spans, (maximum clear span of 13.4 m), as schematically illustrated in Figure . The bridge reaches a total length of 130 m and has an average width of 4 m. All the arches present a semicircular shape except one that is a pointed-arch, most probably due to a reconstruction during the Gothic perio