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-----Original Message-----
From: Geotechnical Engineering Email List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Michael Bleakney
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 1:35 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Physicist and Geotechs
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050929.wxquicksand29/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Bleakney
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 1:34 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: Physicist and Geotechs
These physicists must have studied at the same school as this scholar, who I heard interviewed on the CBC last week.
Sounds like he brought some buckets of quicksand back to his lab from Morocco and Iran and couldn't get stuff to sink in it. Sounds like a valid explanation to me :-)
Cheers, Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Geotechnical Engineering Email List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Paul Mayne
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 11:59 AM
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Subject: Re: Physicist and Geotechs
Dear Abouzar
Do these methods work? Something has to be "better" than "Proctor", as
it sounds quite similar to "proctology". Maybe they're onto something.
Other areas in geotechnique can use improvements as well.
Yours truly,
Paul
Quoting Abouzar Sadrekarimi <[log in to unmask]>:
> > Dear Geotech Colleagues,
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> > I would like to call your attention to the following links:
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> > http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v1/n1/pdf/nphys129.pdf
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/09/29/sandcastle.recipe.reut/index.html
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> > http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v1/n1/full/nphys106.html
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> > In those links physicist are measuring the friction angle with high
> speed
> > and resolution digital cameras, they are modeling clays with magnetized
> > steel spheres, they are proposing eight-to-one water content instead of
> a
> > proctor test, they are proposing methods to improve retaining walls and
> > are
> > completely ignoring Geotechnical Engineering. Are they going to take
> over
> > our career?
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> > Abouzar
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> Paul W. Mayne, PhD, P.E.
> Professor/Geotechnical Engineering
> Civil & Environmental Engineering
> Georgia Institute of Technology
> 790 Atlantic Drive
> Atlanta, GA 30332-0355
>
> Phone: 404-894-6226 Fax-2281
> Email: [log in to unmask]
> http://www.ce.gatech.edu/~geosys
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Paul W. Mayne, PhD, P.E.
Professor/Geotechnical Engineering
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
790 Atlantic Drive
Atlanta, GA 30332-0355
Phone: 404-894-6226 Fax-2281
Email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.ce.gatech.edu/~geosys
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