Overview of Geologic Structures Part 1: Rock Deformation, Stress and Strain 

The plant used hydraulic pressure to do that.

Wow! Glad nobody was hurt. Sounds expensive, though!

damn

This is a cool one to explain. The most likely cause of the actual failure of the material was due to thermal expansion. Concrete takes compression loads well but cannot handle tensile forces and falls apart easily (cracks). the roots growing under the concrete imparted a tensile force on the concrete. The slow growth of the roots allowed the material to deform slowly until it reached the limit of the tensile strength of the material. Rapid temperature change such as what happens when the sun rises and sets causes thermal expansion or contraction in the material. If the material was already at it's stress limit then the rapid change of temperature importing additional tensile forces would cause catastrophic failure. I've seen something similar happen in several quarries after recent removal of overburden. The newly exposed rock, no longer subjected to heavy compression starts to exfoliate. Often around noon to early afternoon when daytime heat was at its height I would witness numerous literal explosions of rock. It's quite the experience to just be walking along and suddenly the rocks themselves start exploding.

Yeah, structural geology relies in his bases heavily on rheology

They will all be released around one per week!

No, the video is correct. Stress causes strain, which is synonymous with deformation

@@gordtvradio3465 I’m not sure you understood my reply. I wasn’t saying that stress doesn’t cause strain, I was saying that you don’t need “sufficient stress” to cause a strain. Every stress, no matter how small, causes strain.

@@brianh870 In that case, you are nitpicking big time

@@gordtvradio3465 I disagree. This was drilled into us in my mechanics of materials class. Every stress, no matter how small, causes a strain in the material. I wasn't trying to nit-pick, I was trying to add more information into the discussion. That's all.

@@brianh870 In that case, good on you!

I'll level with you. That is flat out ridiculous!

me and my friend

@@ProfessorDaveExplains came here for the science, left with this wholesome knowledge.

Weirdest troll ever.

Did you notice that the moon does indeed orbit the sun while orbiting the earth?

@@ProfessorDaveExplains oh ok. Both orbit the sun while exerting gravitational force on each other. Thanks.

@@ProfessorDaveExplains also can you explain how zero gravity planes work or make a video on it.?

Well it’s not zero gravity, it’s just freefall. Same with orbit too, there’s gravity but everything is in constant free fall.

@@ProfessorDaveExplains is this the same phenomenon happens in space station.