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One-piece and voussoir lintels

The lintel made up of only one piece is called a one-piece lintel and it is usually mounted across a large stone over the hollow's jambs. The inconvenience of this solution is that the piece could break more or less in the centre due to the vertical loads that it produces, however this could be solved with a relief arch. The advantage of voussoir lintels or those made from arch stones with regards to the one-piece lintels above is that they support stress better due to their distributed shape.