post-and-lintel

Examples of post-and-lintel in the following topics:

• Post-and-Lintel Construction

  • Post-and-lintel, or trabeated architecture, is a simple construction method using a header (lintel) as the horizontal member supported at its ends by two vertical columns or pillars (posts).
  • Post-and-lintel is one of the four ancient structural methods of building; the others are corbel, arch-and-vault, and truss.
  • The biggest disadvantage of the post-and-lintel system is the limited amount of weight that it can support.
  • There are two main force vectors at work in the post-and-lintel system.
  • This image shows an example of a modern use of post-and-lintel using aluminum concrete framework.

• Mycenaean Architecture

  • A typical post and lintel structure is not strong enough to support the heavy structures built above it.
  • Therefore, a corbeled (or corbel) arch is employed over doorways to relieve the weight on the lintel.
  • The gate is famous for its use of the relieving arch, a corbeled arch that leaves an opening and lightens the weight carried by the lintel.
  • The tombs are entered through a narrow passageway known as a dromos and a post-and-lintel doorway topped by a relieving triangle.
  • The Lion Gate is famous for its use of the relieving arch, a corbeled arch that leaves an opening and lightens the weight carried by the lintel.

• Norse Timber Architecture in the Early European Middle Ages

  • Typically load-bearing with post-and-lintel entrances, long houses had sharply pitched roofs that bore a curve similar to that of a ship.
  • Type A had no free-standing posts and a single nave, as seen in the Renli Stave Church.
  • Type B had a raised roof and free-standing internal posts, as in the Lomen Stave Church.
  • The first was the Kaupanger group that had a complete arcade row of posts and intermediate posts along the sides and details that mimic stone capitals.
  • Interior from Lomen stave church depicting a raised roof and cross braces between upper and lower string beams and posts.

• Neolithic Monuments

  • Considered the last part of the Stone Age, the Neolithic is signified by a progression in behavioral and cultural characteristics including the cultivation of wild and domestic crops and the use of domesticated animals.
  • Through migration and cultural diffusion, Neolithic traditions spread west and northwards to reach northwestern Europe by around 4500 BCE.
  • Neolithic societies produced female and animal statues, engravings and elaborate pottery decoration but in Western Europe it is best represented by its megalithic (large stone) monuments and passage tomb structures which have been found from Malta to Portugal, through France and Germany, and across southern England to most of Wales and Ireland.
  • Even more impressive, the quarrying and transport of the stones took place without the aid of the wheel, requiring a sophisticated method of transport and construction involving felled trees and earthen mounds.
  • The larger Sarcen stones, which form the post-and-lintel ring and the free-standing trilithons, were quarried approximately 25 miles to the north of Salisbury Plain.

• Temple Architecture in the Greek Orientalizing Period

  • Earlier temples were made from wood and other perishable materials and used terra cotta revetments in the form of rectangular and circular panels.
  • Each rider has a stylized nose, eyes, and eyebrows and wears a helmet.
  • Behind the façade of Temple A sat a doorway with an intricately designed lintel.
  • Between each group sits a plain rectangular recess, probably to mark the location of the central column that supported the lintel.
  • Like the free-standing sculptures of the Orientalizing period, each figure on the lintel of Temple A wears Egyptian-style headgear with geometric patterns and cloaks atop their geometrically patterned dresses, which are cinched at the waist.

• The Post-Closing Trial Balance

  • A post-closing trial balance is a trial balance taken after the closing entries have been posted.
  • The post-closing trial balance can only be prepared after each closing entry has been posted to the General Ledger.
  • While each accounting period has a beginning and an end, the periods do use information from the previous period.
  • The preparation of a post-closing trial balance serves as a check on the accuracy of the closing process and ensures that the books are in balance at the start of the new accounting period.
  • The post-closing trial balance differs from the adjusted trial balance in only two important respects: It excludes all temporary accounts since they have been closed, and it updates the retained earnings account to its proper ending balance.

• Classical Greek Architecture

  • It is most easily recognized by its capital, which appears as a circular cushion placed on top of a column onto which a lintel rests.
  • The architrave is composed of stone lintels that span the space between columns.
  • The frieze is divided into triglyps and metopes.
  • The triglyps are located above the center of each capital and the center of each lintel.
  • The Ionic Order coexisted with the Doric Order and was favored by Greek cities in Ionia, Asia Minor, and the Aegean Islands.

• Renaissance Architecture

  • It demonstrates a conscious revival and development of certain elements of classical thought and material culture.
  • In the late 15th century and early 16th century architects such as Bramante, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, and others showed a mastery of the revived style and ability to apply it to buildings such as churches and city palazzos, which were quite different from the structures of ancient times.
  • For instance, church façades of this period are generally surmounted by a pediment and organized by a system of pilasters, arches, and entablatures.
  • Windows may be paired and set within a semicircular arch and may have square lintels and triangular or segmental pediments, which are often used alternately.
  • The Palazzo Farnese in Rome demonstrates the Renaissance window's particular use of square lintels and triangular and segmental pediments used alternatively.

• Posting

  • Carrying out of these instructions is known as posting, a procedure that takes information recorded via journal entries (or journalizing) in the General or Special Journals and transfers it to the General Ledger.
  • Posting is always from the journal to the ledger accounts, and can be done two ways: the journal entries can be posted at the time the transaction is journalized; or the posting can be done at a set time like the end of the day, week, or month.
  • Since accountants and bookkeepers often need to trace the origin of a ledger entry, they use cross-indexing.
  • The general ledger contains all entries from both the General Journal and the Special Journals.
  • Describe how posting affects the General Journal, Special Journal and General Ledger

• Stelae of the Middle Kingdom

  • Images and text were intimately interwoven and inscribed, carved in relief, or painted on the stelae.
  • Funerary stelae were generally built in honor of the deceased and decorated with their names and titles.
  • They also served as doorway lintels as early as the third millennium BCE, most famously decorating the home of Old Kingdom architect Hemon.
  • Stelae also were used to publish laws and decrees, to record a ruler's exploits and honors, mark sacred territories or mortgaged properties, or to commemorate military victories.
  • Much of what we know of the kingdoms and administrations of Egyptian kings are from the public and private stelae that recorded bureaucratic titles and other administrative information.