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Silo discharge of 1mm glass beads seen using X-rays, shown in real time. For the full paper, see here.

When brittle porous media interact with chemically active fluids, they may suddenly crumble. This has reportedly triggered the collapse of rockfill dams, sinkholes, and ice shelves. To study this problem, we use a surrogate experiment for the effect of fluid on rocks and ice involving a column of puffed rice partially soaked in a reservoirContinue reading “Ricequakes”