In the UK these ate known by the wonderful term "Crinkle crankle wall"
That is written in the best first paragraph of the article.
Wavy walls use fewer bricks than a straight wall (2020)
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#192Re: Wavy walls use fewer bricks than a straight wall (2020)
#193This headline is awful and sounds sensational.
Better headline would be "wavy walls use fewert bricks than thicker straight walls"
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#194At cost of like 5x the space ? I guess if you have cheap land but bricks are at premium it makes sense
Re: Wavy walls use fewer bricks than a straight wall (2020)
#195This headline is awful and sounds sensational. Better headline would be "wavy walls use fewert bricks than thicker straight walls"
and like 5x the space
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#196I saw the title and instantly thought, of Suffolk, England.
Quite pleasing to see it referenced in the article too.
Proper Suffolk that, like little pink cottages and good quawlity tea towels[1]. :D
Re: Wavy walls use fewer bricks than a straight wall (2020)
#197Did my adblocker accidentally filter out the explanation? Following the link which is supposed to explain another thing, why it is more resistant to lateral forces, it contains an explanation: > The parameter a is the amplitude of the sine wave. If a = 0, we have a flat wave, i.e. a straight wall, as so the length of this segment is 2π = 6.2832. If a = 1, the integral is 7.6404. So a section of wall is 22% longer, bu…
The point is that a straight wall one brick thick will fall down. Though I didn't see any real explanation of why a straight wall one brick thick will fall down...
Take a piece of paper. Try to put it on its edge. Now bend the paper in zigzag and try again
Re: Wavy walls use fewer bricks than a straight wall (2020)
#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the Christian Science Monitor is perfectly fine. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/christian-science-monitor/
The religious group that funds it has a questionable relationship to science including and despite "Science" being in its name. (It was started as a 19th Century anti-hospital group. We'd consider them "proto-anti-vax" in today's concerns and terminology.) They may be unbiased in reporting the news, generally, but there's still concerns about their relationship to reporting science given their name and the known beli…
...being anti-hospital in the 19th century sounds fairly rational to me?
Re: Wavy walls use fewer bricks than a straight wall (2020)
#199Has someone figured out the ideal frequency / amplitude of the wave? Maybe the frequency that matches the strength of a one-brick straight wall? The pictures strike me as possibly wavier than needed.
It would be strength/brick use tradeoff.
I want to know how that compares to just adding some rebar along the way
Re: Wavy walls use fewer bricks than a straight wall (2020)
#200> these wavy walls actually use less bricks than a straight wall because they can be made just one brick thin, while a straight wall—without buttresses—would easily topple over.
And what about a straight wall with buttresses? Can we make them just as sturdy with fewer bricks?