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Practical Engineering is a YouTube channel about infrastructure and the human-made world around us. With a focus on civil engineering and public works, Practical Engineering highlights the innovative structures and projects that meet humanity’s basic needs.
What Really Happened at the Millennium Tower? - Practical …
2021年11月16日 · How do engineers predict how soils will behave under extreme loading conditions, and what do you do when a skyscraper’s foundation doesn’t perform the way it was designed? Let’s find out. I’m Grady, and this is Practical Engineering. Today, we’re talking about the Millennium Tower in San Francisco. Skyscrapers are heavy.
Why the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapsed - Practical Engineering
2019年3月9日 · Today we’re diving into one of the classic case studies of engineering failure: the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. A bridge is a quintessential civil structure. Humanity’s need to get from one place to another without getting wet is as old as history itself.
How French Drains Work - Practical Engineering
2024年8月6日 · Once you know the base soil’s grain size distribution, there are a number of engineering methods to find a material that will both allow water to flow while still holding the soil back. And in a lot of cases, that just happens to end up being some variation on the sand we’re used to using in concrete and sandboxes and demonstrations about ...
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Each month, millions of people tune in to Practical Engineering to see Grady Hillhouse’s idiosyncratic online video series about infrastructure and the human-made world.
When Infrastructure Gets Hacked — Practical Engineering
2024年9月17日 · If you want to see an example of this in action, check out my Practical Construction series where I embedded on a construction site of a sewage pump station and documented the process from start to finish.
The Hidden Engineering of Wildlife Crossings — Practical …
2024年12月17日 · Like aquatic species, there is a lot of engineering involved in getting terrestrial animals across a barrier. But fortunately, a lot of that research and guidance has been summarized in a detailed manual.
What Really Happened at the Oroville Dam Spillway? - Practical …
2021年5月18日 · That means engineers have to be able to make conservative estimates of how much erosion will occur when an emergency spillway engages. Predicting the amount and extent of erosion caused by flowing water is a notoriously difficult problem in civil engineering.
How Sewers Work - Practical Engineering
2021年7月6日 · As easy as it sounds to slap a pipe in the ground and point it toward the nearest wastewater treatment plant, designing sanitary sewage lines - like a lot of things in engineering - is a more complex task than you would think.