Structures 0-1 Introduction

Have you wondered how the physical structural world around you works? How buildings, bridges, and sculptures stand up? Or, if you did understand structures, how you could think about and design better from a conceptual level?

[NemoNautilusEra]

Not an architect or engineer, but I wanted to say thank you for taking your time to make this knowledge available for everyone.
Your explanations and visual supports are great.
Take care.

[BackToReality]

Rephrasing the question to "what now?"... Good advice, not just for structural design, but also life in general. ;)

[harineevenugopal]

I'm an architecture student and these videos with the plenty of visuals truly help me understand how they work ! super grateful

[peterfitzpatrick]

I saw a recent vid of yours & on the strength (pun intended) of it, I decided to sub & like & go back through your archived vids... thank you so much for the effort you put into teaching others here on youtube for no real return... Some of us really DO appreciate it.. 🙂

From the Emerald Isle
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[pabloetchepare]

as a mechanicall engineer that i am, I have never ever seen that cantilever design that radical
What is the concept of that one ?. Minimun deflection, Minimun structure and minimun material, etc.
I will attend all your videos / lectures, and, for sure, hope to be surprised in each and every one of them.
Thanks for sharing and spread knowledge !
Pablo.

[sergek]

Thank you for the video Paul. Hope it will help me in my Architectural practice :)

[aderlonms]

Descupe nao eacrever na sua língua, mas gostaria de agradecer ao vídeo, seguirei vendo todos, sua forma de ensinar faz a mente abrir e ver alem do obvio, muito obrigado pelo esforço em criar esse video.

[pabloetchepare]

I allways thougth tension equal one was the answer, or, equal tension on all the beam ( i mean, the "wedge" profile, if you understand me ), but glad to see this design / answer / proposal.
Regards.

[roderickhorne]

Loved it Paul - it’s like I’m learning again

[velayudhand]

Great Mr Paul.Thank you so much for sharing with us....!!!

[swagatochatterjee]

I'm a computer scientist, but I am enjoying your lectures thoroughly. Will it be possible to leave links from where I can study these things more formally?

[niklip]

Great videos! Please keep the good work up!

[kevintong]

Dear Paul, I went to MIT in 1969 to 1972 in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. At an optimization course, Professor Daniel E. Whitney proposed a cantilever design question to minimize deflection at the end under its own weight (with or without F at the end, I do not remember). l missed the session when he gave us the answer. Is it possible that the optimal cantilever has two cross sections, with a bigger cross section near the wall, and an abrupt transition to the smaller section, probably in the middle of the cantilever? lf this is not the optimum design, what is the optimal design?

lf you see him, could you ask him whether his answer is like that stated above? Was there an F at the end?

[mncE]

Ge tready for the handover. June 29 2014 approximately 9am, it's 24 hrs a day there's no off time...

[s]

Thank you for your lecture at UPenn today. It was fantastically insightful and I'm delighted to see more here!

[caty]

So, whose responsibility is it to analyze the structures; the architect or the engineer?

The way I understand this is that that the architect is like an artist; responsible of coming up with ideas of structures that will look nice given various socio-cultural or even religious conditions of the users. Then, the engineer would take those ideas, make calculations, and determine how to build those structures as efficiently as possible (with just the right amount of materials at the right places).
Is this correct?

[kelvinouma]

I am doing building and construction engineering and hopefully you will help me

[deborabretas]

Hello from Brazil! Professor I really appreciate your videos. I teach structures for archtects and I'd love tô know If is there any imagens that tou show that you could share so O can use too. Thanks you a lot for the videos

[hawsaromerhama]

hey Mr Paul, i want to study master in uk, i realy like to study concrete and steel mostly in seismic zones, i don't know which university be good for my career

[structuralengineeringinsti]

"That's just what the '90s looked like"!