Sand Castle Holds Up A Car! - Mechanically Stabilized Earth
Practical Engineering2 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2016-2026
5M views · 10 years ago · explainer · evergreen
Practical Engineering explains Mechanically Stabilized Earth, where layers of reinforcement make soil strong enough to hold heavy loads, shown with a sand structure supporting a car. It notes that MSE walls are everywhere in infrastructure.
Often named as a great first video from Practical Engineering and as the explanation of reinforced earth.
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6 comments from Hacker News
I was suprised to see the use of wiremesh in sand castle building some years ago. Same concept though. You add something that helps with shear strength and you can build much taller sand buildings. It’s really counter intuitive to see too, since the sand could clearly sieve through the mesh. Ha! just looked up the video, seems it’s another practical engineering video I was thinking of ▶ this video
It reminds me of the video "Sand Castle Holds Up A Car! - Mechanically Stabilized Earth" - ▶ this video
I keep a Google Document of these to share just in case people ask about my YouTube interests. I Actually Watched All of Them I have actually watched ALL of the videos on these channels and I don’t even feel bad about it :-) I actually like new videos from some of the ones below (like NativLang, for example) but they maybe don’t hold up in the early videos. - Space Time: PBS Physics, sooo good -- link -- Great first video: link - Lindsay Ellis: Really, really intelligent video essays about film and culture -- link -- Great First Video: link - Periodic Videos: Chemistry, including a video for every element -- link -- Great first video (obviously): link Other Math and Science - 3Blue1Brown: Amazing math visualizations -- link -- Great first video, how e^pi*i works: link - NumberPhile: Fun math videos -- link -- Great first video: link - PBS Eons: Biology! -- link -- Great first video: link - PBS Infinite Series: Math math math, really really hard math -- link -- Great first video: link - SciShow: Science! More poppy but fun -- link -- Silly first show: link -- Actual physics: link - VSauce: Science-y? -- link -- Great first video: link - Practical Engineering: -- link -- Great first video: ▶ this video Other Humanities - Alliterative: Connections via language -- link -- Great first video about gin and gimlets: link - Bon Appetit: Such fun food stuff! -- Gourmet Makes: link -- It’s Alive: link - Masaman: Genetics and human migration (an
I wonder if sheets of a cloth-like material could be used in loading similar to Mechanically Stabilized Earth Practical Engineering has a great video on this simple but pervasive technology. ▶ this video
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Reminds me of reinforced earth which I learned about from this video: ▶ this video (which is also from the pretty great Practical Engineering channel).