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How to construct the perfect sandcastle

Just a bit of water enables one to turn a pile of dry sand into a spectacular sandcastle. Too much water however will destabilize the material, as is seen in landslides. Here we investigated the stability of wet sand columns to account for the maximum height of sandcastles. We find that the columns...

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Autores principales: Pakpour, Maryam, Habibi, Mehdi, Møller, Peder, Bonn, Daniel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3412320/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22870378
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep00549