Tile vault test at MIT

Construction and collapse of 1.8m span vault, Jan 2009.
Thanks to Consolidated Brick and the International Masonry Institute for their support.
Video by Jose Cano, MIT '09

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• vault

[Jacintososa24]

Gracias por el video. Por favor me podrian ayudar? necesito saber de que material se construye la bóveda, las distancias entre apoyos y si lo han construido ya en algún pais. Muchas gracias y sigan adelante con las investigaciones.

[piolenc]

The point is that, without the edge reactions to support it, the vault should have failed immediately. Instead, it withstood considerable spreading of its supports before failure, which is remarkable performance, not to be found in any other vault system that does not incorporate tensile elements.

[themountainviewguy]

the point?

it would have been interesting to see how much weight that thing could support, ie. haw fragile was it, but all you did was pull out the base and let it collapse.

[iraqifreak]

Epic Fail xD

[ernestalba]

This is clearly the work of a genius. Good job, Jose.

[pcube]

nice video, jose!