How Beams Work! (Part 1): Structures 6-1

Using paper and a plank of wood, I show you what makes material into a beam! This is also when we can start bringing together all the structural items we covered before to understand the all-purpose beam we see everywhere. Enjoy!

I'm Paul Kassabian. I'm a structural engineer and a Principal at SGH in Boston, MA. I taught graduate students at MIT for nine years and currently teach on/off at Harvard's Graduate School of Design (GSD). These are videos based on my years of teaching structures to students.

[taliksiram]

A teacher like you is making learning more interesting. Seeing an example is way much better than hearing lecture. Kudos👍

[anactorslife]

As a new project manager at a construction firm I have been given the added task of overseeing our architectural engineering department and I have to say this is a whole new world of education for me, Thanks for your lecture series. Subscribed!

[BostonMark]

I enjoy studying tree growth (trunk, limbs branches even root systems) from a structural perspective. It’s amazing how trees inherently grow proportions and cross sections to perfectly accommodate wind and snow loads

[kyul]

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[altgoncalves]

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[volkertstoll]

If we had Tutoriums like this 45 years ago. Things would be more easy to understand . In my 40 years carrieer as an engineer I was never involved in construction.

[romeosabaldan]

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[andybrice]

I think this demonstration could be even better by using a paperback book: Since it has little bending resistance away from the spine, but has considerably more towards or along it.

[timonhazell]

Favorite part... "Here... what? ... is a whole bunch of paper... so it's clearly an advanced class"

[vaibhavjain]

Can you please make video on tensegrity structures sometime in future?

[shahidnadim]

sir.please your video dubbing in Hindi language

[xhaxhimiti]

I am sorry. Not good. That is what I think. Forgot the alpha.