Using paper and a plank of wood, I show you what makes material into a beam! This is also when we can start bringing together all the structural items we covered before to understand the all-purpose beam we see everywhere. Enjoy!
I'm Paul Kassabian. I'm a structural engineer and a Principal at SGH in Boston, MA. I taught graduate students at MIT for nine years and currently teach on/off at Harvard's Graduate School of Design (GSD). These are videos based on my years of teaching structures to students.