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[quote user="dehusman"]Volker: Metaphors for what we are talking about. You have a beam that centilevers from a wall. You drop a load on it and the beam shears off and the load falls to the ground. That's a slope failure. You have a beam that centilevers from a wall. You drop a load on it and the beam deforms and bends, the load falls to the ground. That's liquifaction.[/quote] First, no need to explain the difference between liquifaction and landslide to me. As I said before I'm a civil engineer and that means I learned at least the fundamentals in soil mechanics and geotechnic before specializing in structural design, where these fundamentals are needed too. When you make comparisons you should do it right. A cantilever beam usualy has a stress failure caused by the bending moment not a shear failure. Brackets experience shear failure. [quote user="dehusman"]One is a shear failure, the other is a deformation.[/quote] Wrong, both are shear failures only with different consequences. From Euclid's link: A generally comparable definition was published by the American Society of Civil Engineers ( 1958, p. 1826-22) and quoted by the American Geological Institute (1972, p. 410) as follows: "The sudden large decrease of shearing resistance of a cohesionless soil, caused by a collapse of the structure by shock or strain, and associated with a sudden but temporary increase of the pore fluid pressure [is liquefaction]. It involves a temporary transformation of the material into a fluid mass." As there are a number of reasons for liquifaction, there are a number of causes for a landslide. One of these possible causes is liquifaction. Regards, Volker
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