Stunning new concrete videos now live on Workshed
The new suite videos resources about the behaviour of concrete is now live on the Expedition Workshed site. Follow this link to access the videos on the Workshed site. We produced this set of videos with funding from CONSTRUCT and in collaboration with Imperial College Civil Engineering Department Materials Testing Laboratory. We designed these videos to give students the opportunity to see … Read more
Text book results and making concrete cry – day two on location
Yesterday we were compressing things; today we have been pulling things apart. With most of the compression tests completed yesterday, we spent this morning shooting footage of tensile tests of reinforcing steel. Talk about textbook behaviour! The graphs output from the testing machine are a beautifully illustrate the behaviour you would expect from these materials. … Read more
Shooting concrete – day one on location
I always find shooting video nerve-racking. There is always a limited window of opportunity to get the shot right. At least when shooting videos of materials exploding, there are no worries about forgetting lines. But in the case of creating Stuff Failure videos, the emphasis is firmly on capturing the material failure mode clearly and … Read more
List of concrete tests finalised
We have now finalized the list of concrete tests that we will be filming at Imperial College for the new concrete Stuff Failure videos. Thank you to everyone who responded to our questions about appropriate tests. Reinforced Concrete Elements We produce videos that will show the behaviour under two-point loading of simply supported beams that … Read more
New concrete films to be recorded at Imperial College and produced by Aeries Films
We are delighted that we will be cooperating with Dr. Sunday Popoola and his time to produce the CONSTRUCT-funded concrete videos that we are producing for Expedition Workshed. The videos will be shot in the civil and environmental engineering department’s newly refurbished materials testing laboratory. The collaboration came about as a result of a conversation in a … Read more
CONSTRUCT agrees funding for new concrete Stuff Failure videos
CONSTRUCT, the concrete structures group has agreed to fund the creation of a suite of videos to teach students about the behaviour of reinforced concrete. These will feature in the concrete section of the Stuff Failure room on Workshed. Think Up will lead the development of these resources. The next stages in this project will be to … Read more
