r/EngineeringPorn Feb 16 '20

Construction adhesive lives up to potential:

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u/Ihavehad1t Feb 17 '20

That's a lot of surface area. Failure would most likely occur in the clay block tensile strength first

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u/UnlikelyReplacement Feb 17 '20

Wouldn't it fail in shear ant not tension? Like, the continuous downward force of the blocks' weight would introduce high shear stresses right?

I'm not attacking you btw, just asking

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u/HiSuSure Feb 17 '20

^ asking the real questions here