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Elton David J. |
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Grounded! : amazing classroom demonstrations in soil mechanics / / David J. Elton, Ph.D., P.E |
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Reston, Virginia : , : American Society of Civil Engineers, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (206 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Soils - Experiments |
Soil mechanics - Experiments |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments and Contributors""; ""Soils Magician Accreditation Procedure""; ""Video Demonstrations""; ""Magic Demonstrations""; ""1 Exploding Soils (Extreme Slaking)""; ""2 Rice Is Nice (an Exercise in Pile Capacity)""; ""3 Break that Block (the Power of Bentonite)""; ""4 A Retaining Wall Made of Paper""; ""5 Slip Slidin' away with Effective Stress""; ""6 Magic Beaker (Sand Defies Gravity)""; ""7 Effective Potato Chips""; ""8 Foam Balls in a Pipe (Soil Arching)"" |
""9 Geotechnical Rorschach Test (Water Flows around a Drain, instead of into the Drain)""""10 Hairy Soil""; ""11 Sand Cylinder Hoisting""; ""12 Water That Won't Go through a Sieve (and Water That Does)""; ""13 Dilation in Someone's Hand (Silty Soil Identification)""; ""14 Piping Under a Sheetpile Dam""; ""Non-Magic Demonstrations""; ""15 Jar of Rocks (Soil Void Ratio, Porosity, Unit Weight, and Water Content of Soils)""; ""16 Liquefaction by Upward Gradient""; ""17 Blow It Out (Critical Hydraulic Gradient) and Flowlines""; ""18 Relative Density of Soil in a Graduated Cylinder"" |
""19 Soil Filter Demonstration Using Marbles""""20 Sand in a Jar (Strong as You Are)""; ""21 Shear and Compression Waves""; ""22 Soil Bridge in a Tube""; ""23 Capillarity and Cotton Balls (Bonus: Nonwoven Geotextile Strength Demonstration)""; ""24 Stick-Slip Behavior""; ""25 Tilt Me up |
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