How Do Cables Work? (with Demo!): Structures 1-1

Cables do one thing...carry tension! Here we look at how the forces in a cable and its shape are directly related. So the more we look, the more we learn!
We even have a demo (with some helpers who have a short song for you too) with basic string and small packets of rice...not complicated things but all the better for understanding the behavior of strings, ropes, and cables.
Plus, a reminder of a time when people used to write magnificent songs about engineering projects!

[@paxmao]

I have the feeling that I am learning more in 5 miutes of this than in 6 hours of uni classes on the topics. Thanks for making it so clear.

[@PaulKassabian]

Happy to hear that!

[@aliakbarfaizze9199]

we need more lesson like you teach. I am waiting enthusiastically for your more lessons.

[@timonhazell]

Cheers to your support team :D Nice job @Paul on these videos.

[@PaulKassabian]

Thanks Timon - and the "YourDesk University" videos you're posting are great too!

[@MikeAG333]

Well done to your little helpers.

[@flourishomotola5306]

Thanks for your work Sir and thanks to the two young ladies holding up the string. 👍🏿

[@vincep1c156]

Just found your channel, thank you for providing a great series on buildings and structures.

[@user-bk4mp2eu6e]

Great videos. Would love to see more on residential structures and building codes

[@rezafrank9118]

Hello my dear. You described the tensile structure very well with your example. Please explain other structures with other videos

[@burakkaya7152]

I discovered your channel yesterday and really lik the content and your expression style..Thank you . Please upload new video series about TENSEGRITY .

[@readwithhaziq]

One of the best CIVIL ENGINEERING channel ❤️

[@PaulKassabian]

Thanks!

[@ryansgot]

I aspire to have such a a support team as you have in this video. Maybe someday my girls will help me make a video, too.

[@ramys3053]

Hi Paul. Great videos. Would love to see actual worked examples going through the calculation process. 👍

[@jameslevermore5194]

Awesome teaching Sir! Makes me want to go back to university and study what I should have studied

[@Magicomidubidubibum]

man, thank yo so much, i feel like the maid's husband from the movie parasite, R E S P E C T !

[@murtazamahemud2459]

Now i can feel the stress at the support.

[@ahmedsharafaldeen4224]

Love it, awesome job

[@PaulKassabian]

Thanks Ahmed!

[@ahmedsharafaldeen4224]

@@PaulKassabian iam a civil engineer from Sudan, please continue to share like this videos

[@roctrader]

Thanks Paul. and thank you about "Funiculi Funicula" meaning!

[@PaulKassabian]

You're welcome and changes how you think about it forever more!

[@PacoOtis]

Bravo!

[@tousifakhtar5934]

Great Explanation 👍

[@PaulKassabian]

Glad it was helpful!

[@funnycomplications6523]

You are the best😍😍

[@liboy9844]

Nice explanation. Wonderful kids, you owe them some ice cream now.

[@mohammadrezaranjbar2475]

very good

[@tinkatul]

Gracias.

[@bartbarylkiewicz8129]

The cable is also rocking a little bit out of plane. Is it possible to work out a horizontal force which is responsible for that?
Let's say that we have a suspended cable structure (like in video) but it is also connected to another structure which is standing on the ground and stable on it's own. How to work out horizontal force which would be transferred from the upper part to the lower part?

[@justinstimson6515]

Keep your hand up.

[@alexcabral1372]

Good

[@hakeemnaa]

similar to the muscles
you can easily find which muscle do the exercise by imagine it as a rope
for example of do squat, it is the front thighs who do the most of the exercise because it will be under tension

[@anandjamdade9156]

Nice Sir

[@HominidWannabe]

aww hell ya, CHILD LABOR my favorite 😄

[@PaulKassabian]

I just tell them it's fun and not educational...

[@manuelattard9983]

poor kids, they could not resist for much longer.........and then came the Latin lesson too :)

[@jaegpsde3877]

Are you sure that there is rice in the bags?

[@Thestripper1]

It was too distracting with the kids..