
Understanding the World's Greatest Structures: Science and Innovation from Antiquity to Modernity
Building Up: Columns and Buckling
Educational · Mar 4, 2011 · 32 min The Great Courses Signature Collection
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S1, E5: One of the most potent human aspirations supported by engineering is to build up. Learn how this has been done from antiquity to the present with columns - structural members that carry load primarily in compression. You'll also learn about buckling: the often catastrophic stability failure that occurs in columns with certain geometric characteristics.
Educational · Mar 4, 2011 · 32 min