ASCE Book Grounded 2015
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Grounded! – Amazing Classroom Demonstrations in Soil Mechanics
| Published By | Publication Date | Number of Pages |
| ASCE | 2015 | 206 |
Dave Elton has done it again! Exploding soils… Retaining walls made of paper… Gravity defying sand! Grounded! Amazing Classroom Demonstrations in Soil Mechanics presents 35 serious but entertaining experiments that teach the fundamentals of soil mechanics to budding scientists and engineering students in an exciting and novel way. In this sequel to the popular Soils Magic, Elton has assembled a wealth of fascinating new experiments to illustrate the dynamics of how soils behave and how they can be manipulated. Topics include: slaking, pile capacity, swelling clays, shear and compression, effective stress, capillary tension and flow, soil arching, tensile and compressive strength, soil identification, piping, liquefaction, relative density, soil filters, settlement rates, and many more. Each demonstration includes easy-to-follow directions, illustrations, and an explanation of the engineering significance or application of the principle demonstrated. Videos of many experiments are also available. An exciting tool for high-school and college instructors, the inexpensive and simple experiments in this book make soil mechanics fun to learn and are fascinating to even the casual science enthusiast.
PDF Catalog
| PDF Pages | PDF Title |
|---|---|
| 1 | Cover |
| 6 | Contents |
| 8 | Preface |
| 11 | Acknowledgments and Contributors |
| 13 | Soils Magician Accreditation Procedure |
| 14 | Video Demonstrations |
| 16 | Magic Demonstrations 1 Exploding Soils (Extreme Slaking) |
| 22 | 2 Rice Is Nice (an Exercise in Pile Capacity) |
| 27 | 3 Break that Block (the Power of Bentonite) |
| 32 | 4 A Retaining Wall Made of Paper |
| 40 | 5 Slip Slidin’ away with Effective Stress |
| 46 | 6 Magic Beaker (Sand Defies Gravity) |
| 50 | 7 Effective Potato Chips |
| 56 | 8 Foam Balls in a Pipe (Soil Arching) |
| 61 | 9 Geotechnical Rorschach Test (Water Flows around a Drain, instead of into the Drain) |
| 66 | 10 Hairy Soil |
| 70 | 11 Sand Cylinder Hoisting |
| 75 | 12 Water That Won’t Go through a Sieve (and Water That Does) |
| 80 | 13 Dilation in Someone’s Hand (Silty Soil Identification) |
| 85 | 14 Piping Under a Sheetpile Dam |
| 91 | Non-Magic Demonstrations 15 Jar of Rocks (Soil Void Ratio, Porosity, Unit Weight, and Water Content of Soils) |
| 97 | 16 Liquefaction by Upward Gradient |
| 105 | 17 Blow It Out (Critical Hydraulic Gradient) and Flowlines |
| 114 | 18 Relative Density of Soil in a Graduated Cylinder |
| 119 | 19 Soil Filter Demonstration Using Marbles |
| 126 | 20 Sand in a Jar (Strong as You Are) |
| 130 | 21 Shear and Compression Waves |
| 135 | 22 Soil Bridge in a Tube |
| 140 | 23 Capillarity and Cotton Balls (Bonus: Nonwoven Geotextile Strength Demonstration) |
| 147 | 24 Stick-Slip Behavior |
| 151 | 25 Tilt Me up Scotty (Interface Friction) |
| 157 | 26 Soils Relaxing (the Angle of Repose) |
| 160 | 27 Falling Head over Heels for Permeability (the Permeability of Oobleck) |
| 164 | 28 Bulking of Soils (AKA: Less Soil for Your Money) |
| 170 | 29 Geotextile Puncture Test |
| 175 | 30 Soil Dilation and Compaction Using Ping Pong Balls |
| 178 | 31 Campus Geology Tour |
| 180 | 32 Settlement Rates of Soils in Jars |
| 184 | 33 Bearing Capacity (Bigger Is Better) |
| 191 | 34 Retaining Wall in a Box |
| 196 | 35 Rockfall Simulator Lab |
| 202 | Bibliography |
| 204 | Index A C D E F |
| 205 | G H I L P Q S T U V W |
| 206 | About the Author |
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