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Came here to make this same comment. My father in-law has been in construction for 60 years, this is one of his favourite words. Neat to see it here on HN.
by j4ah4n 5y ago
Came here to make this same comment. My father in-law has been in construction for 60 years, this is one of his favourite words. Neat to see it here on HN.
- Arrath 5y agoI've been involved in several projects using Explosive Densification to combat soil liquefaction, its pretty dang fun. That is, using a sequence of explosive charges to improve soil compaction by breaking bonds and driving out latent water content. It triggers a cycle of liquefaction and then compaction afterwards. http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0120-62302016000300056 http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S...