Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.47960/2232-9080.2025.29.15.30
HERCULE POIROT AND SUPPORTS SETTLEMENT
Vlaho Akmadžić
orcid.org/0000-0001-7052-0755
; University of Mostar, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy
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Matej Lozančić
orcid.org/0000-0002-8628-0714
; University of Mostar, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy
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Matea Primorac
; University of Mostar, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy
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* Corresponding author.
Abstract
The inspiration for writing this paper lies in the character of Hercule Poirot, a fictional Belgian detective who appears in the Agatha Christie novel series. In the television series, the detective role was played by actor David Suchet. The paper, which builds on a series of works related to the phenomenon of support settlement, the occurrence of cracks and the determination of the soil reaction coefficient, shows the connection between the shape of the mustache of the actor mentioned in the series and the settlement of the middle support of a continuous girder over two spans. The sought answer was found by observing the area between the limit cases of the bending moment diagram following fractal logic.
Keywords
Hercule Poirot; soil reaction coefficient; settlement of supports; fractal
Hrčak ID:
332450
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Publication date:
20.6.2025.
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