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And that's the way you say it, it's clay-like

Engineering Catastrophes

And that's the way you say it,it's clay-like. Clay soil accumulates water. And that puts...

Engineering Catastrophes • S06E10 • 2018

And that's the way you say it,
it's clay-like. Clay soil accumulates water. And that puts enormous
additional lateral pressure onto any sort of
retaining wall system. [narrator] As the soil
absorbed heavy rainfall, it expanded like a sponge, causing cracks in the masonry that was holding
the retaining wall in place. And the damage
was about to get worse. When it dries,
it recedes and it retracts

Full Transcript

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And that's the way you say it, it's clay-like.

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Clay soil accumulates water.

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And that puts enormous additional lateral pressure

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onto any sort of retaining wall system.

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[narrator] As the soil absorbed heavy rainfall,

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it expanded like a sponge,

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causing cracks in the masonry

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that was holding the retaining wall in place.

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And the damage was about to get worse.

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When it dries, it recedes and it retracts.

Duration

36 seconds

Views

13

Timestamp in Movie

00:19:07

Uploaded

Oct 28, 2025

Season

6

Episode

10

Genres

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Movie Summary

With access to all phases of design and a large cast of experts, some of the great failures of engineering history are uncovered.