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  2. Dilatancy (granular material) - Wikipedia

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    Dilatancy of a sample of dense sand in simple shear. The phenomenon of dilatancy can be observed in a drained simple shear test on a sample of dense sand. In the initial stage of deformation, the volumetric strain decreases as the shear strain increases. But as the stress approaches its peak value, the volumetric strain starts to increase.

  3. Diving physics - Wikipedia

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    Diving physics, or the physics of underwater diving, is the basic aspects of physics which describe the effects of the underwater environment on the underwater diver and their equipment, and the effects of blending, compressing, and storing breathing gas mixtures, and supplying them for use at ambient pressure.

  4. Human physiology of underwater diving - Wikipedia

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    Intensity increases with depth and may be aggravated by exercise. Compression arthralgia is generally a problem of deep diving, particularly deep saturation diving, where at sufficient depth even slow compression may produce symptoms. Peter B. Bennett et al. showed that the use of trimix could reduce the symptoms. [36]

  5. Soil liquefaction - Wikipedia

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    A typical reference strain for the approximate occurrence of zero effective stress is 5% double amplitude shear strain. This is a soil test-based definition, usually performed via cyclic triaxial, cyclic direct simple shear, or cyclic torsional shear type apparatus. These tests are performed to determine a soil's resistance to liquefaction by ...

  6. Dispersion (water waves) - Wikipedia

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    Dispersion of gravity waves on a fluid surface. Phase and group velocity divided by shallow-water phase velocity √ gh as a function of relative depth h / λ. Blue lines (A): phase velocity; Red lines (B): group velocity; Black dashed line (C): phase and group velocity √ gh valid in shallow water.

  7. Submarine depth ratings - Wikipedia

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    This is the maximum depth at which a submarine is permitted to operate under normal peacetime circumstances, and is tested during sea trials.The test depth is set at two-thirds (0.66) of the design depth for United States Navy submarines, while the Royal Navy sets test depth at 4/7 (0.57) the design depth, and the German Navy sets it at exactly one-half (0.50) of design depth.

  8. Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia

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    Their test scores placed them in the 12th percentile, but they ranked themselves in the 62nd percentile. [21] [22] [5] Other studies focus on how a person's self-view causes inaccurate self-assessments. [23] Some studies indicate that the extent of the inaccuracy depends on the type of task and can be improved by becoming a better performer ...

  9. Overburden pressure - Wikipedia

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    () is the density of the material above the depth . g {\displaystyle g} is the gravity acceleration in m / s 2 {\displaystyle m/s^{2}} . In deep-earth geophysics/geodynamics, gravitational acceleration varies significantly over depth and g {\displaystyle g} should not be assumed to be constant, and should be inside the integral.