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What a janky support

And the long shock absorbers burn off the energy of the moving mass as heat, much like the brakes on your car burn off the car's moving energy in the form of heat. This is where the "damper" term comes from. The all-spring example in the video does not add any kind of damper, resulting in more motion than you would see if there were a way to add some simple shock absorber to it.

Its not just hanging. Explain the hydraulics below it

I visited this building last year. Amazing engineering

It didn’t collapse cuz it wasn’t built by china 😮

Mirror's Edge Catalyst has a mission where you disconnect one of these, I didn't know they were real

Essentially a gimbal

Because the horse race never ends

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Taiwan: build 700 tons of stell ball to protect skycrapper from swinging Japan: just a pool of water is enough

Red hot steel ball vs building in Taiwan

Inertia people...

Soft story but very hard fall

Unless u got them dtabilizers like in nyc sktscrapers, also if the skyscraper is a cube it obese

Very cool!

I know and understand the theory... But would never think of making one for this purpose! 🧐😮

earthquake wont kill you but the ball might

Plz help me, I am in final year, graduating as an architect and I want to do masters in structural engineering... Is it worth the hassle?

Concrete doesn't "dry" and people need to stop saying that, everything else is pretty accurate. Also, we can engineer chemically to dry in certain ways so that it doesn't shrink or crack but this is extremely expensive and i have never seen it used cosmetically.

This is one of those things that is so practically efficient and ridiculously extravagant that Im amazed it was OK'd by the city.

Bellsprout tower 🥂

I think it's depends coz if we provide the loose joints then the structure will collapse from earthquake and heavy winds And if we do provide rigid joints it will fully collapse so both have there pros and cons .

Perfectly shown, thx

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About 100 blue whales, Americans using anything but the metric system.

Cute little toy, but those joints will crack after the first earthquake from the stress of those spring beams.

STEEL. BALL. RUUUUN.

I too have a set of tuned mass balls to keep me from toppling over.

At least is not like tofu project from the west

There was an episode of life after people that talked about Taipei 101s mass damper system.

730 tons 😲

I get to go on one of those skyscraper and see and really took in at how massive the core is Honestly its amazing how it all works

Overworked and underpaid. Welcome to Civil Engineering!

Pendulum motion coutering the sway of the building.

Toxic indeed! How to change careers? Not so easy. I quit my PE electrical engr career.

This is why you're not supposed to go outside in an earthquake. You're actually safest staying inside and above ground.

Unless if your on china

Don't use springs

No tufo projects

Pretty sure the Chinese produced this a very long time ago. Just recycled ideas from the ancient architects

so when this peindulum hits the wall does'nt it destroy walls

I live in a city that has no earthquakes cause of it's geographic position but the wind is everywhere compared to you apparently

What is that model called? I want some!

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TBF the perceived magnitude was only around 5 in Taipei

So realistically it's best to build high in earthquake-prone areas, and low in areas surrounding major earthquake zones

"but skyscrapers have a weakness" And it starts with 9

It contains the snail

They’re not so safe to be in during a plane crash tho