Mode of Failure

Every structure has a mode of failure — the specific way it breaks once it's pushed past what it was built to hold.

This channel takes one real engineering disaster at a time and works backward to the principle behind it. Not just what collapsed, but why the physics made it inevitable: load paths, resonance, metal fatigue, brittle fracture, progressive collapse.

Each video teaches one concept you can carry to the next failure. The Hyatt Regency walkway isn't a story about a hotel — it's a story about what happens when a load path gets doubled. Tacoma Narrows isn't a story about wind. It's about aeroelastic flutter.

These failures rewrote the building codes. The reason structures stay up today is that these ones didn't.

New video every week.