Things like this give me such a deep appreciation for just how much I don't know and how intelligent some people are to be able to design something like this.

@coolcat1813

Жыл бұрын

Nothing special about that, just pure mechanics following laws of physics.

@joshkalpupki1649

Жыл бұрын

@@coolcat1813 What a non-statement, No crap it's just following mechanics. Humanity has taken thousands of years to develop the math and understanding along with a ton of trial, error, and dedication to build structures as such. Reducing the thousands upon thousands of years of work of countless humans and the concepts of building such a structure to "Meh, it's just following simple mechanics, it's nothing special" is grossly arrogant and ignorant.

@h.mandelene3279

10 ай бұрын

@@coolcat1813 + if u go there, you will see the idea is from a building in NYC that they copied it from.

@kerimzunic

9 ай бұрын

@@coolcat1813 A supremely idiotic statement

@darklight6013

4 ай бұрын

This Is an Italian project by a venician team, as an italian myself i didn't know its existence before the earthquake

Engineering at its finest

@GandalftheWise

Жыл бұрын

In the old days they would just have your mother sit in the middle on a swing and she would stabilize the building due to her gigantic size

@nicoh1953

Жыл бұрын

yes indeed

How scary and lucky to be in that place at that moment.

@KellyAspinall

Жыл бұрын

IKR!! How horribly wonderful all at the same time!

Imagine being there to see it work, feeling at the mercy of human engineering

@allez2015

4 ай бұрын

Whether you realize it or not you are under the mercy of human engineering every day. Engineers are the ones who design the safe physical fabric of our society. They work quietly and diligently behind the scenes to keep millions safe even when the millions have no clue its happening.

I wonder how they got that thing up there 700+ tons. Man. Amazing.

@KarlenBell

Жыл бұрын

If you look at the "ball", it's not spherically smooth. That's because it's made of layers of metal discs. Each disc was transported by a crane and stacked together to form this giant "ball".

@anth0r

Жыл бұрын

@@KarlenBell thanks. I did notice that a little later. In slats piece by piece. I needed my readers on lol

@anth0r

Жыл бұрын

@@KarlenBell I’d be scared to be right there but it would be awesome to see. I’d be afraid of if the thing fell down. Would it rip the building down inwards?

@theoptimisticskeptic

Жыл бұрын

They built it on-site as it was too heavy to transport. It cost $4 million to build.

@user-co8uy5rb2s

13 күн бұрын

Watch LIFE AFTER PEOPLE on what will become of it. 😅

This is actually a big ball of honey, hence why Winnie the Pooh wants Taiwan so bad

@versedbridge4007

Жыл бұрын

😂

@ray-rayslegoworld1786

9 ай бұрын

it's danger

For the ones who are comparing Taiwan, Japan, China...This installation is great Italian engineering, fully designed and built in Italy by Professor / Engineer Renato Vitaliani and Fip Mec (Padova).

@calvinchan1257

4 ай бұрын

Isn’t it by a Canadian company called Motioneering?

@Annie59G

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for this bit of information about an absolutely fascinating topic.

728tons moving, approx, 2m is a lot of power...!

Tuned mass dampers are a real life sci-fi technology, name and all.

everwhere else: oh no we're in danger! take cover quick! them: is the ball finna drop?

Dear god, imagine one of those massive shocks blowing out and needing replacement. Imagine the process it must be to replace one of those shocks.

That is amazing.💯

Wtf dude. The Taiwanese are times ahead. Even ahead to Japanese.

@wowprint5758

Жыл бұрын

True. In term of purchasing power per person and quality of life. Taiwan has surpassed Japan already since 5 years ago

@michaelbedford2993

4 ай бұрын

The ball was engineered by an Italian. Aka a human.

@neurofiedyamato8763

Ай бұрын

Tuned mass dampers are used in many tall towers. Its not unique to Taiwan

Canadian engineering at its finest 🇨🇦

A engenharia salvando vidas!

Incredible engineering feat!

Well done engineers !

I just remember this building from Artemis Fowl I didn't think it was actually real😂😂😂

That earthquake would've destroyed the building! Wow!

WOw that’s so cool!

Made by FIP from Padova, Italy.

@Ðogecoin

4 ай бұрын

Are you the ceo

@blackdeath099

4 ай бұрын

That's just plain false. It was made by Motioneering, a Canadian company. Man Italians just making stuff.

Imagine it small like a chain inside a flagpole you dont want to break the chain dampens the pole by opposing the force of the wind

and this is engineering at work

Damn! Just like Oedo 808, there was stabilizer in one of the anime

@zaghell

4 ай бұрын

thanks for mentioning this anime. never heard of it.

Genius 🤓

6.8 on chile is the usual, you dont even stand from your chair

why don't we put these in every structure we build? Is the effect only on tall buildings?

@kerimzunic

9 ай бұрын

It's not only on tall buildings, but only on certain types of buildings. I don't think a mass damper like that would have much of an effect in a 5-story residential building. But it is used in bridges too, which are often not very tall, but tend to sway a lot during strong winds and earthquakes too.

The idea of this is basically when the tower is shaking left to right and this ball hanging from the 87-92nd floor of the tower this heavy ton ball pulls the opposite way of the left to right shaking tower to negate the shake however i'm very sceptical of to just how proficient this actually is.

@EaglehawkMoonfang

11 ай бұрын

why

@capella01

9 ай бұрын

OmG Thank you I was trying to figure out how it worked

@mattmoreira210

7 ай бұрын

The building is like a giant distributed spring-mass system and the "ball" hanging from the steel ropes comprises a pendulum that is approximately tuned to the natural resonant frequency of the building. As the building sways, it couples a part of its kinetic energy into that pendulum system. The shock absorbers damp the resulting oscillation, turning the kinetic energy into waste heat.

🇧🇷🇧🇷 Incrível

Reza lenda que martelo Thor é mais pesado do que que coisa pendura no prédio 🇧🇷

Just googled it and i was suggested here taiwan had earthquake yesterday april 3

For such an iconic event, one would think it could be recorded by something better than a smart phone on portrait setting...

it worked then

got ball

Any chance of the dampeners being some sort of regenerative breaking system? A 660MT ball moving at that speed may give some power to the city in cases when it may be of utmost importance

@GooogleGoglee

Жыл бұрын

LoL That's not how it works

@DoNotPushHere

Жыл бұрын

@@GooogleGoglee enlighten me instead of just laughing your ass

@DoNotPushHere

Жыл бұрын

@FoilYaPlan you don't have to harvest it from friction. You just have to make the dampeners hydraulic and to channel the volume of fluid through a dynamo. The reverse of the same system that big ships and passenger cruisers use to stay balanced instead of rock on the sea

@footballshowItaly

Жыл бұрын

@@DoNotPushHere it probably isn’t cost-energy efficient

@mattmoreira210

7 ай бұрын

I'm sure it could be done, but it might not have been economically viable... ? Interesting idea, nonetheless.

Imagine the brain benhind this. hott damn

Wow..!

It looks like the floater bulb in my toilet tank.

A Murican couldn’t make sense of what he was looking at

Which one is actually moving: the ball or the building itself?

@marciojjj

4 ай бұрын

The ball.

@rayRay-pw6gz

4 ай бұрын

The earthquake is moving the building and the ball is reacting to dampen the movement. So both are moving.

@michaelbedford2993

4 ай бұрын

Use your ears/eyes lol and watch the video again. It visually explained as the ground shakes and building shakes with it, the ball will move in the opposite direction the building shakes/ leans toward, dampening the mass energy by 40%.

@Hezep

4 ай бұрын

The building

case

Crendeuspai😱 Se essa bola despenca 😂

I was there.

@chadwilliams4373

4 ай бұрын

yeah I saw you in the clip, pretty cool

I was in that earthquake

Imagine if that balls fall in? The whole city might wipe out 😢

His weight is 0.1% of the taipei 's weight

@samuctrebla3221

4 ай бұрын

Yes, and it's completely sufficient to dampen most of this massive building cinetic energy, just as a small group of jumping people is able to make a bridge resonate (accumulating cinetic energy by amplification at precise resonance frequency) . Both systems are just operating the same way, but with opposite phase

Looks like honey

😍😍

👍👍

I love Taipei 101 (yao-ling-yao) building! Visiting Taipei, and Taichung, & Tainan, we went to the 101 building every day, to seafood buffet, movie theater, shopping, and the damper ball viewing area; luckily, no earthquake while we were there! I hope China can stay away from Democratic government of Taiwan-but I know they will stomp on them, as they did Hong Kong in the last few years! Soon Taiwan will have the CPC Boot on its neck•

@JoeSmith-ku6un

Жыл бұрын

Yi-ling-yi 🤣

Taipei 101 is the most ugliest building in the world!!

@rodanderson8490

Жыл бұрын

I think the building is beautiful in its uniqueness. I visited it in 2016 and was VERY impressed.

@spodiobook715

Жыл бұрын

wumao spotted. get off your vpn lmao

@shermgerm6458

Жыл бұрын

It's a beautiful, dark, evil building. It's coooool af.

@CapybarUh

Жыл бұрын

Nah. It looks nice!