| Autore |
Elton David J.
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| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Reston, Virginia : , : American Society of Civil Engineers, , 2015
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (206 p.)
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| Disciplina |
631.4078
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| Soggetto topico |
Soils - Experiments
Soil mechanics - Experiments
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| Soggetto genere / forma |
Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
0-7844-7905-4
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
""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 Scotty (Interface Friction)""; ""26 Soils Relaxing (the Angle of Repose)""; ""27 Falling Head over Heels for Permeability (the Permeability of Oobleck)""; ""28 Bulking of Soils (AKA: Less Soil for Your Money)""; ""29 Geotextile Puncture Test""; ""30 Soil Dilation and Compaction Using Ping Pong Balls""
""31 Campus Geology Tour""""32 Settlement Rates of Soils in Jars""; ""33 Bearing Capacity (Bigger Is Better)""; ""34 Retaining Wall in a Box""; ""35 Rockfall Simulator Lab""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""L""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""About the Author""
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460910103321 |
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Grounded! : amazing classroom demonstrations in soil mechanics / / David J. Elton, Ph.D., P.E
