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SUMMARY:Between rock and a hard place: soil\, the ambiguous material - Pro
 fessor Malcolm Bolton FREng\, Department of Engineering
DTSTART:20150309T180000Z
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CONTACT:Beverley Larner
DESCRIPTION:Soil Is a multiphase granular material that can behave like a 
 frictional solid or a fluid\, depending partly on its inherent character a
 nd partly on its circumstances. The science of soil mechanics has to encom
 pass all these possibilities. But “circumstances” include the uses to 
 which the soil is put\, and this takes us from science into engineering\, 
 and specifically into geotechnical engineering. It can alternatively take 
 us into soil science and thence into agriculture or ecology.  On the bound
 aries between these material conditions and technological goals there are 
 both scientific challenges to understanding soil behaviour and challenges 
 in the selection of robust engineering solutions capable of bridging the r
 emaining uncertainties.\n\nTwo applications will explored: the engineering
  of slopes to counter rain-induced flowslides\, and the design of hot oil 
 pipelines that will squirm around on the ocean floor but which must not ru
 pture.\n
LOCATION:Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre\, Department of Chemistry
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