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What is soil mechanics?
Education Soil Mechanics

World-leading geotechnical engineer Professor John Burland introduces viewers to the world of soil mechanics. This is the first in the Bare Essentials of Soil Mechanics series: the key things a civil engineer needs to created to understand about soil mechanics. More engineering teaching resources available on http://expeditionworshed.org 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 invites us to spare a thought for the long-forgotten geotechical engineer whose responsibility it was to stop the tunnels from falling on our heads or to prevent the skyscrapers from sinking into the ground. He goes on to describe soil mechanics as the branch of s Show more