Discovery tv show "Smash Lab"
Discovery tv show "Smash Lab"
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not sure if anyone caught this on Discovery. It is basically a new series that they blast, crush, etc things and figure out practical ways to make them better.
Last night I watched the show about blast protection for block wall buildings. They tested to see of Rhino lining help protect the buildings. Their tests were pretty ridiculous. The mock ups they used were unreinforced, ungrouted CMU block. Of course the uncoated block is going to fall apart. It didn't even appear that they even had any horizontal ladder reinforcement. Their conclusion in the end was that if you coat a building inside and out with Rhino lining, it served as blast protection for the building.
My wife was making fun of me because I kept calling them fools.
Last night I watched the show about blast protection for block wall buildings. They tested to see of Rhino lining help protect the buildings. Their tests were pretty ridiculous. The mock ups they used were unreinforced, ungrouted CMU block. Of course the uncoated block is going to fall apart. It didn't even appear that they even had any horizontal ladder reinforcement. Their conclusion in the end was that if you coat a building inside and out with Rhino lining, it served as blast protection for the building.
My wife was making fun of me because I kept calling them fools.






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You said that was on the discovery channel? what day/time?
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It was a great controlled process to watch.
The unreinforced concrete or concrete block walls did not pass, but reinforced block and concrete walls performed well. I could not relate the reinforcement spacing to any static criteria, but the actual dynamic results were impressive. Wood frame with plywood and exotic "band-aid" coatings did not fare too well as you would expect.
It was a little more interesting to an engineer than the TV back yard "blow it up" with a lot of smoke and no controls or relationship to a real wall element.
Dick
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