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ANCHOR

Anchor types for GFRC include dowels, weld plates, straps, dovetails, threaded inserts, screws and Z clips.

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ACROTERION/ACROTERIUM

From the Greek word ‘acroterion’, the ‘summit or extremity’. Acroterion may be a palmate, statue or a pedestal.

Refers to the small pedestal or plinth placed either side of the pediment (the triangular gable).

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ACOUSTICS

Acoustics is the science concerned with the production, control, transmission, reception, and the effect of sound.

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ACCOLADE

An ornamental treatment of the archivolt or hood molding of an arch or of the moldings of an apparent arch or of a farm resembling an arch, at in late gothic work.

Two ogee curves meeting in the middle to form a decorative treatment, used over an arch, door, or window.

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ACANTHUS PLANT

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ACANTHUS

Acanthus leaves are the stylised leaves of the acanthus plant, used in decoration on column capitals of the corinthian and composite orders.

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ABUT

To touch, or join at its end; as in a beam where the end is planted against another member of a structure, but without trim around it.

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ABRASIVE FINISH

It is a flat and grainy surface texture.

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ABACUS

The abacus is the top part of a column capital. Abacus may be a square slab or a molded shape.

THE SQUARE HEAD OF A COLUMN

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