Part of structural engineering education and research, for many people, is testing various materials to failure in a lab. Steel coupons are stretched to yield and then failure; concrete samples are crushed until they more or less explode.
Sometimes, steel wide-flange sections are compressed until they buckle. From last fall’s trip to the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, a former lab test repurposed as art:
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