| He seems to mean the force tending to pull the counterfort loose from the horizontal slab. |
| In a counterfort, the inclined rods are sufficient to take the overturning stress. |
| A stone staircase was cut to the southern counterfort plus a room large enough for a team of six men. |
| The manifest and only function of the rib or counterfort is to tie together the curtain wall and the horizontal slab. |
| The soil above the base of a reinforced concrete cantilever or counterfort wall is included as part of the weight of the wall in stability calculations. |
