YouTube description: People use boats for all kinds of reasons, and in the same way, there are all kinds, shapes, sizes, and ages of locks used for waterway navigation across the world. Freight is big... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 11 months 1 week ago • 248 views • 10:37

YouTube description: Continuing the series on the power grid by diving deeper into the engineering of large-scale electricity generation.

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 7 months 3 weeks ago • 579 views • 9:59

YouTube description: We normally build a dam to hold water back and store it for use in water supply, irrigation, hydropower, or flood control. But sometimes we have to let some water go. Whether we... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 1,036 views • 8:15

YouTube description: A quick overview of how we build underwater structures.

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 10 months 3 weeks ago • 427 views • 8:18

YouTube description: Dams serve a wide variety of purposes from hydropower to flood control to storage of water for municipal and industrials uses. But when a dam’s useful purpose fades away, the... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months 3 weeks ago • 1,291 views • 8:40

YouTube description: Engineers need to be able to predict how water will behave in order to design structures that manage or control it. And fluids don’t always behave the way you’d expect. On this... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 1 month 1 week ago • 752 views • 8:43

YouTube description: Comparing modern concrete to that of the western Roman empire. In this video, I discuss a few modern techniques that help improve design life of concrete, including roller compacted... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 4 months 1 week ago • 495 views • 9:34

YouTube description: While steel reinforcement solves one of concrete’s greatest limitations, it creates an entirely new problem: Corrosion of embedded steel rebar is the most common form of concrete... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 5 months 2 weeks ago • 251 views • 7:49

YouTube description: Wind can be one of the most critical and complicated loads on civil structures. The case of the Tacoma Narrows bridge is a well-known cautionary tale that’s discussed in engineering... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 6 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 707 views • 8:48