{"id":140167,"date":"2024-10-19T08:08:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T08:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdfstandards.shop\/product\/uncategorized\/asce-book-grounded-2015\/"},"modified":"2024-10-25T00:21:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T00:21:27","slug":"asce-book-grounded-2015","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/pdfstandards.shop\/product\/publishers\/asce\/asce-book-grounded-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"ASCE Book Grounded 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave Elton has done it again! Exploding soils\u2026 Retaining walls made of paper\u2026 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.<\/p>\n

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1<\/td>\nCover <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nContents <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nPreface <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\nAcknowledgments and Contributors <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\nSoils Magician Accreditation Procedure <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\nVideo Demonstrations <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16<\/td>\nMagic Demonstrations
1 Exploding Soils (Extreme Slaking) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22<\/td>\n2 Rice Is Nice (an Exercise in Pile Capacity) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27<\/td>\n3 Break that Block (the Power of Bentonite) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
32<\/td>\n4 A Retaining Wall Made of Paper <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
40<\/td>\n5 Slip Slidin\u2019 away with Effective Stress <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
46<\/td>\n6 Magic Beaker (Sand Defies Gravity) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
50<\/td>\n7 Effective Potato Chips <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
56<\/td>\n8 Foam Balls in a Pipe (Soil Arching) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
61<\/td>\n9 Geotechnical Rorschach Test (Water Flows around a Drain, instead of into the Drain) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
66<\/td>\n10 Hairy Soil <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
70<\/td>\n11 Sand Cylinder Hoisting <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
75<\/td>\n12 Water That Won\u2019t Go through a Sieve (and Water That Does) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
80<\/td>\n13 Dilation in Someone\u2019s Hand (Silty Soil Identification) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
85<\/td>\n14 Piping Under a Sheetpile Dam <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
91<\/td>\nNon-Magic Demonstrations
15 Jar of Rocks (Soil Void Ratio, Porosity, Unit Weight, and Water Content of Soils) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
97<\/td>\n16 Liquefaction by Upward Gradient <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
105<\/td>\n17 Blow It Out (Critical Hydraulic Gradient) and Flowlines <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
114<\/td>\n18 Relative Density of Soil in a Graduated Cylinder <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
119<\/td>\n19 Soil Filter Demonstration Using Marbles <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
126<\/td>\n20 Sand in a Jar (Strong as You Are) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
130<\/td>\n21 Shear and Compression Waves <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
135<\/td>\n22 Soil Bridge in a Tube <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
140<\/td>\n23 Capillarity and Cotton Balls (Bonus: Nonwoven Geotextile Strength Demonstration) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
147<\/td>\n24 Stick-Slip Behavior <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
151<\/td>\n25 Tilt Me up Scotty (Interface Friction) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
157<\/td>\n26 Soils Relaxing (the Angle of Repose) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
160<\/td>\n27 Falling Head over Heels for Permeability (the Permeability of Oobleck) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
164<\/td>\n28 Bulking of Soils (AKA: Less Soil for Your Money) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
170<\/td>\n29 Geotextile Puncture Test <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
175<\/td>\n30 Soil Dilation and Compaction Using Ping Pong Balls <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
178<\/td>\n31 Campus Geology Tour <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
180<\/td>\n32 Settlement Rates of Soils in Jars <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
184<\/td>\n33 Bearing Capacity (Bigger Is Better) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
191<\/td>\n34 Retaining Wall in a Box <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
196<\/td>\n35 Rockfall Simulator Lab <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
202<\/td>\nBibliography <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
204<\/td>\nIndex
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205<\/td>\nG
H
I
L
P
Q
S
T
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206<\/td>\nAbout the Author <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grounded! – Amazing Classroom Demonstrations in Soil Mechanics<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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