Epic earthquake building test

[HATECELL]

Look at how engaged the students are. This is how school should be

[datruommi]

Pretty cool to watch the tower go in and out of sympathetic resonance during the build up as the frequency went up.

[samsep]

Hello guys. I'm an earthquake engineer. This is a little different from a real earthquake simulation because earthquake moves the buildings in 3 directions but this table only moves in 1 direction. Also earthquakes have many different frequencies happening randomly not increasing gradually. The third difference is seismic isolators must have a returning mechanism that means after the building is moved, it tries to bring it back to its original location. The four marbles used couldn't bring the building back to center and it caused the shake table hitting the foundation. Anyways it was really fun to watch. Thank you 😊

[wagesofsinn]

Arms crosses, chewing gum, and his hat on backwards in class. That is the coolest kid in 1994.

[nfcapps]

It hit harmonic motion. That was actually pretty cool.

[Nathan_p]

My poor ass school used spaghetti noodles and marshmallows, then just had the teacher shake the mf desk

[ScienceMom]

That’s a great teacher. This kids are fully engaged.

[golxz]

Its because of those glass marbles under the building. This thing is known as base isolation. And it keeps the building safe from seismic excitations.

[justsayin]

when the earthquake needs to be a world ending event for your building to even topple, then that's one hell of a design

[glockiyana]

Bro standing and chewing like he's the main character

[fahimir]

That's actually a well thought out design, keeping the center of mass as close to the center as possible.

[sneaky]

If my school had been anything at all like this, I may have actually enjoyed school.

[MrAmadus]

If you look closely, you can see Dylan in the background is holding the whole structure together solely by looking at it. In fact it collapses the second he looks away.

[Ryanisred]

I brought in super glue to my class and everyone thought I fr killed it

[akirastanley]

Everyone saying schools should be like this, I don't know if you've ever done engineering in school, but this is what we did.

[NortsGhoul]

Damn never actually seen a structure hit a harmonic before

[TheMaxFusionGaming]

I wish my school had this budget. We used gumdrops and toothpicks and then the teacher just shook the desk. Needless to say we all failed.

[mr.b.]

Sheiiiit.. people in the building had enough time to log out, take a shit, have a mild convo, walk to their vehicles and drive off, only to get crushed by the same building.

[murphmanin]

Good teacher but it also definitely helps to have the school funding to be able to give students these kinds of lessons with the correct equipment shown here. Lots of schools can’t even afford paper these days due to more and more budget and staffing cuts.

[kylekinkade]

Give the cameraman an A+ for holding still throughout that earthquake.