Columns are all about how you place material to prevent buckling. Here I show four different columns, all with the same cross-sectional area but buckling under very different loads. Enjoy!

I'm Paul Kassabian. I'm a structural engineer and a Principal at SGH in Boston, MA. I taught graduate students at MIT for nine years and currently teach on/off at Harvard's Graduate School of Design (GSD). These are videos based on my years of teaching structures to students.