The Effect of Gravity on Soil Strength

In the third video in the Bare Essentials of Soil Mechanics series, Professor John Burland demonstrates how deposition under gravity of soil particles, in lakes and rivers, affects how soils behave. More engineering teaching resources available on 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 uses an ingenious model to show in s