دانلود کتاب Grounded! : amazing classroom demonstrations in soil mechanics

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Content: Exploding soils --
Rice is nice : an exercise in pile capacity --
Break that block : the power of bentonite --
A retaining wall made of: paper! --
Slip slidin' away with effective stress --
Magic beaker: sand defies gravity --
Effective potato chips --
Foam balls in a pipe : soil arching --
Geotechnical Rorschach test (water flows around a drain, instead of into the drain) --
Hairy soil --
Sand cylinder hoisting --
Water that won't go through a sieve
water that does --
Dilation in someone's hand: (silty soil identification) --
Piping under a sheetpile dam --
Jar of rocks : soil void ratio, porosity, unit weight and water content of soils --
Liquefaction by upward gradient --
Blow it out : critical hydraulic gradient. flowlines --
Relative density of soil in a graduated cylinder --
Soil filter demonstration using marbles --
Sand in a jar, strong as you are --
Slinky shear waves (and compression ones, too!) --
Soil bridge in a tube --
Capillarity and cotton balls, plus (bonus!) non-woven geotextile strength demonstration --
Stick slip behavior --
Tilt me up Scotty : interface friction --
Soils relaxing : the angle of repose --
Falling head over heels for permeability : the permeability of ooblech --
Bulking of soils : aka, less soil for your money --
Geotextile puncture test --
Soil dilation and compaction using ping pong balls --
Campus geology tour --
Settlement rates of soils in jars --
Bearing capacity : bigger is better --
Retaining wall in a box --
Rockfall simulator lab.