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<p>[quote user="cx500"]</p> <p> </p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">Murphy Siding</div> <div class="quote-content">Are you a soil engineer?</div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p>He very obviously isn't, to anybody who has had any even casual experience with their impact on the railroad.  <span style="font-size:12pt;">However in</span> his quoted link the phrase<span style="color:#000000;"> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:8pt;"><span style="color:#0070c0;font-size:x-large;">"</span></span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;"><span style="color:#0070c0;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">have produced some confusion in usage and understanding" <span style="font-size:medium;">seems very fitting.</span></span></span></span></span></p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>No need to be a soil mechanics and geotechnical engineer in view of the literature aimed to laymen. They are good enough to understandably describe the causes.</p> <p>I, as a civil engineer (structural design) haven't seen anything wrong in Euclid's description. Soil liquefaction is one propable cause of the derailment. Others were mentioned in this thread.</p> <p>The linked article explains the cause and its possible consequences. The quoted part refers to the inaccurate use of the terms, mixing up cause and consequences.<br />Regards, Volker</p>
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