Hello Everyone, Welcome back to Motion Monday 👋 This week’s motion study explores what happens when a cannon ball strikes two brick walls under the same launch conditions. The only change? Brick size. • One wall was built using smaller bricks The response was completely different: |
• Smaller bricks collapsed in a much more chaotic way — scattering, rotating, and breaking apart in multiple directions.
• Larger bricks mostly toppled in bigger sections, showing a more unified motion response.
Why does this happen? Smaller bricks create more joints and more independent moving bodies. Once impact energy enters the wall, it spreads through many separate contacts, creating unpredictable motion. Larger bricks have fewer interfaces, so they tend to move together as larger masses.
Same force. Same setup. Different motion.
To Play with the motion yourself you can download SOLIDWORKS file from below.
| 3DPlay Model | Model Zip |
See you next Monday with another motion study in action ⚙️
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