Destroying Stuff for Science, part 6: Keep your eye on the pipe
Channel: Maggie Koerth
Date: 11/05/2012

In January, I took a tour of the The Constructed Facilities Laboratory at North Carolina State University. This is where engineers take the materials and structures that build our world and put them to the test--pushing pillars, concrete slabs, pipes, and more to the breaking point. In this video, Greg Lucier explains how researchers gather data about what's happening to the materials as they break.