In the second video in the Bare Essentials of Soil Mechanics series, Professor John Burland describes that soils are made up of individual particles - this is fact is fundamental to the understanding of soil behaviour. Prof Burland is based at Imperial College London and has worked on hundreds of interesting projects, the most famous of which was stabilising the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
In this video Prof Burland demonstrates how all soils, be they gravel, sand, or silt are made up of individual particles. Even clay, which is stiff to handle, can be dried out and when put under an electron microscope, can be seen to be made of particles. Using a simple demonstration, Prof Burland shows how a soil's ability to resist loads is generated by shearing resistance at the particle contacts. Learning outcomes This video will help learners answer questions such as:
About the Bare Essentials of Soil Mechanics Series This video is part of the Bare Essentials of Soil Mechanics series, funded by the Ove Arup Foundation, in which Professor John Burland draws on his many years of practice in geotechnical engineering and teaching to provide listeners with what he regards to be the key knowledge that geotechnical engineers need to understand about soil mechanics in engineering practice. More engineering teaching resources available on www.expeditionworkshed.org This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. Credits Written and presented by: Prof John Burland, Imperial College, London. Concept design: http://www.thinkup.org/ Graphic design: http://thomasmatthews.com/ Direction/Production: http://www.ariesfilms.com/ Source: Expedition Workshed - www.expeditionworkshed.org
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World-leading geotechnical engineer Professor John Burland introduces viewers to the world of soil mechanics. This is the first in the Bare Essentials of Soil Mechanics series: the key things a civil engineer needs to created to understand about soil mechanics. Prof. Burland is based at Imperial College London and has worked on hundreds of interesting projects, the most famous of which was stabilising the Leaning Tower of Pisa. In this video, Prof Burland invites us to spare a thought for the long-forgotten geotechnical engineer whose responsibility it was to stop the tunnels from falling on our heads or to prevent the skyscrapers from sinking into the ground. He goes on to describe soil mechanics as the branch of science that studies the mechanical behaviour of soils as they apply to the design of civil engineering structures.
Learning outcomes This video will help learners answer questions such as:
About the Bare Essentials of Soil Mechanics Series This video is part of the Bare Essentials of Soil Mechanics series, funded by the Ove Arup Foundation, in which Professor John Burland draws on his many years of practice in geotechnical engineering and teaching to provide listeners with what he regards to be the key knowledge that geotechnical engineers need to understand about soil mechanics in engineering practice. More engineering teaching resources available on www.expeditionworkshed.org This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Credits
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