Showing posts with label what is liquefaction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label what is liquefaction. Show all posts

Friday, 2 December 2011

Engineering: Do you know what soil liquefaction is?



Ingeniería: ¿Qué es la licuefacción de los suelos?

Japanese education (higher education) is worldwide famous because of the emphasis given and resources spent in physical models. Today, after watching a program on the March 11th quake on NatGEO, and the effects of liquefaction on reclaimed land, I remembered I had recorded an interesting video back in 2006 at the Tohoku EE Fair. The experimentrecreates the impacts of liquefaction on civil structures, particularly on manholes, which explains what was observed during the great event of March. I invite you to enjoy it and learn.
For those who are not familiar with this term, let me remind you that liquefaction is a process by which the soil
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