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[narrator] Crucially, the wall needs a wide base

Engineering Catastrophes

Crucially,the wall needs a wide base to prevent the soil it retainsfrom knocking it over....

Engineering Catastrophes • S06E10 • 2018

[narrator] Crucially,
the wall needs a wide base to prevent the soil it retains
from knocking it over. So the wall has to be
both heavy and it has to be wide
enough on the bottom to resist the rotation
of this wall

Full Transcript

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[narrator] Crucially, the wall needs a wide base

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to prevent the soil it retains from knocking it over.

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So the wall has to be both heavy

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and it has to be wide enough on the bottom

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to resist the rotation of this wall.

Duration

19 seconds

Views

11

Timestamp in Movie

00:16:27

Uploaded

Oct 28, 2025

Season

6

Episode

10

Genres

Production

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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.