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[quote user="tree68"]Wouldn't that more or less have been the case if the water level of the river were uncharacteristically high, completely submerging the roadbed?[/quote] I don't think so. The walls of the box confine the energy, which is brought into the system, to the area of the box. Without the walls or a box with a larger area the same energy would have activate a larger area slowing the process. In the field the wall would need to be the surrounding soil. It will never be as rigid as a metal wall. What happens in reality is a question of the local situation. Is the soil condition, allowing liquefaction, only a local problem on a number of sq ft or a general problem along the fill. So the results of this laboratory test cannot be transfered one-to-one to the field. Regards, Volker
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