Crushing a 12" Tube Down to 1.5"

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Uploaded by on Sep 6, 2007

An aluminum tube buckles and folds from a height of 12" down to 1.5" played at 2x normal speed

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  • I love watching how the buckling almost occurs as if it follows a VERY specific pattern. I havnt studied material failures due to buckling yet, but informative. Looks almost like a torsion becomes applied to the tube after it begins buckling.

  • What's fascinating is that the shape of each fold is triangular in plan. A triangle is the most stable shape. The failing material deforms until it forms a shape that cannot be deformed and then the next section buckles

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  • I wish I could crush my coke cans this uniformly.

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  • very cool

  • Sounds like there are chipmunks in the room runnin that! lol

  • wtf

  • Very cool!

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