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We study a model comprising 9 degrees, for a height of the summit platform with 135 m, by removing 1 m for the foundation raft. The height of the wall of each degree is about 135/9=15 m. It is known that the walls of the degrees of the pyramids have a strong slope of 75° and the face has a slope of 52° approximately. These figures give an idea of the space of the cornice where one will install a ramp in solid masonry (d=2.05 to 2.3, Red colour) and will fill the remainder of the cornice of stones with many voids or low mean density (d<1.9, green colour).
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Bui, H. (2012). Filling the Cornices. In: Imaging the Cheops Pyramid. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 182. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2657-4_5
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