100-Year-Old Structural Engineer Talks About Thin-Shell Building Design

Richard Bradshaw, structural engineer for the LAX Theme Building and many others talks about thin-shell buildings and how to design the old-school way, with pen, paper and geometry. www.enr.com/

[@ajinprakash9763]

I guess some people become smarter by age. I currently work with a 77 year old structural engineer. He's still active, smart and a quick thinker. Never implements anything without calculations. He started of at a time when there were no calculators available, then went on to use mechanical calculators and then started fem using punch cards. He now uses Finite Element Analysis softwares and Design softwares just like any youngsters. I'm always surprised how he is still passionate about what he does. He's from IIT Kharagpur (1966 batch).

[@MitzvosGolem1]

fun to build them....No FEM computers or CAD then yet they exceeded us today.

[@VishnuprasadRanganatha]

This person.... I never knew about him.... He is the very first person to inspire me.... Now filled with lot of hope...

[@arunndinesh]

Wow. Thank you for this video. Really wondering how passionate he is still at this age. Precisely explained the implemented ideas without loosing a penny of memory. " Old is gold always...." Thank you Richard sir! #Brilliant# Structural Engineer# RESPECT!!

[@williamhill2221]

Responsibility and working attitude and financial management and diligent/modest for old age engineer and steel workers and miners always gold time and very important factor

[@professordeb]

Brilliant! Thank you! So much to learn from this earlier work.

[@Architectural-Design-World]

Amazing historical engineering story @ shell design !

[@maryedison2180]

He is bound with energy even at this age. Hats off. He is so much passionate

[@r.a2229]

Why the sad song in the background!!... common this is the best videos I've seen as an engineer. It made me really emotional... I just hope he's been able to transfer that knowledge

[@TonyWadkins]

Wow! That man is amazing!

[@jcjc3914]

Very cool ! I know nothing of the field but I hope the person I hire is this creative more importantly passionate about what they do!

[@KathyJean]

I learned from this. Thank you.

[@merryparde]

what an amazing concept 🤟

[@flourishomotola5306]

Beautiful Story

[@fransiscusmintarferrysihot7073]

He ( Richard Bradshaw ) is really a Genius and Creative Structural Engineer..Full Respect to You, Mr. Bradshaw..Wish You All The Best

[@howardlitson9796]

This is brain workers / knowledge workers to 70 years old / 80 years old very available. This is not sport not artist music.

[@mohammedaslamrifdhy4004]

Thanks..

[@B30pt87]

How cool!

[@motivationalspeech801]

thanks .

[@williamhill2221]

Engineer and steel workers and miners are very often for 60 years old to 80 years old in factory's manufacturing.

[@merryparde]

wow! 🙇‍♀️

[@carmelpule6954]

The structure at 3:31 may be looked upon as two diagonal backbone arches, cutting each other at right angles and then filling in the four sectors in between with other distributed arches, with their imposts resting naturally into the diagonal arches. The surface would have been generated automatically without any headaches. To have all stress lines in line and parallel with the surface curve, I do not think that the curve should be part of a torus. The structural logic of the surface curve of a torus has nothing to do with the gravitational pull on the weighted distributed surface that makes it up. A torus has its logic from an inflated tensioned sheet system under pressure where the forces are at right angles to the surface and not where each weight component is subjected to a downward gravitational pull. The logic of an arch or an inverted shallow catenary curve ( not a parabolic one) would have been more logical.

[@SeattleCoorain]

I'm reading about Pier Nervi (1891 - 1979): a wonderful engineer, architect, inventor who would I think agree with you wholeheartedly. He was comfortable with structural analysis and creative intuitive understanding of the underlying statics of buildings. Invented ferrocement to deal with material shortages after WWII in Italy AND satisfy his desire to bring structural efficiency and function together.

[@OiVinn-eq1ml]

This guy is a legend

[@williamhill2221]

Old age engineer and scientists are very often and very normal.

[@williamhill2221]

60 years old to 80 years old for workers and engineer in factory's manufacturing are very common.

[@williamhill2221]

Oliver S scientists 80 years old to 90 years old is not legend. Very normal

[@emjb3608]

respect sir hates off !

[@antonrolandzaratuburan1578]

❤️

[@osamagad1710]

He is genius

[@howardlitson9796]

Young engineer and architect in mechanic factory and construction company age 40 years old are belong to young. In general most of them engineer in mechanic factory and metallurgist steel mill workers average age are 45 years old to 55 years old

[@merryparde]

did he write book related to structural engineering?

[@DeltaArxz]

0:26 I hope society can bring this fashion back into style or have it considered normal. I would definitely dress up like that most of the time

[@TsetsiStoyanova]

Poor guy, lovely, but sad interview

[@nizal9388]

Thats the only problem....the industry never pays well. Its a poor work life balance and theres just too many structural engineers, so fees will always be low.