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  2. Standard penetration test - Wikipedia

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    The test may be stopped if any of the following conditions are met: (1) a total of 50 blows have been applied in any one of the 15 cm (6 in) intervals, (2) a total of 100 blows have been applied over the total 45 cm (18 in) depth, or (3) there is no observed advance of the sampling tube during 10 successive blows.

  3. Hole erosion test - Wikipedia

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    As the liquid (typically water) flows through the hole, the soil should erode and the hole will expand. The flow rate should be measured throughout the procedure. Directly after the test, the diameter of the hole should be measured. The hydraulic shear stress along the surface of the hole at time t can be calculated as: [1]

  4. Drainage equation - Wikipedia

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    One would not want the water table to be too shallow to avoid crop yield depression nor too deep to avoid drought conditions. This is a subject of drainage research. The figure shows that a seasonal average depth of the water table shallower than 70 cm causes a yield depression [5] The figure was made with the SegReg program for segmented ...

  5. Permeability (foundry sand) - Wikipedia

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    The grain size, shape and distribution of the foundry sand, the type and quantity of bonding materials, the density to which the sand is rammed, and the percentage of moisture used for tempering the sand are important factors in regulating the degree of permeability. [1]

  6. Density logging - Wikipedia

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    Density logging is a well logging tool that can provide a continuous record of a formation's bulk density along the length of a borehole.In geology, bulk density is a function of the density of the minerals forming a rock (i.e. matrix) and the fluid enclosed in the pore spaces.

  7. Fill dirt - Wikipedia

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    Fill dirt is taken from a location where soil is being removed as a part of leveling an area for construction; it may also contain sand, rocks, and stones, as well as earth. Fill dirt should be as free of organic matter as possible since organic matter will decompose creating pockets of empty space within the fill which could result in settling ...

  8. A sand hole collapse in Florida killed a child. Such deaths ...

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    Sloan Mattingly died Tuesday afternoon at Lauderdale-by-the-Sea's beach when a 4-to-5-foot-deep (1-to-1.5-meter) hole collapsed on her and her 7-year-old brother, Maddox. ... sand hole that killed ...

  9. Angle of repose - Wikipedia

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    They achieve this by flinging the loose sand out of the pit and permitting the sand to settle at its critical angle of repose as it falls back. Thus, when a small insect, commonly an ant, blunders into the pit, its weight causes the sand to collapse below it, drawing the victim toward the center where the predator that dug the pit lies in wait ...