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Granular Materials

This teaching and learning package (TLP) is an introduction to the static behaviour and flow behaviour of granular materials.

Aims
Before you start
Introduction
Terzaghi's effective stress principle
Ground settlement and centrifuge modelling experiments
Angle of repose
Principle of normality
Yielding of disturbed saturated soils in triaxial stress tests
Original Cam-Clay model
Liquefaction
Wet sand drying underfoot
Summary
Questions
Going further

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Photograph of a pile of bulk solids

First created: August 2017. Last updated: October 2017.

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