In civil engineering, quicksand is more than just a puddle of mud! The "quick condition" occurs when seepage reduces the ...

Salyards, K. (2011) Lessons Learned through the Development of an Undergraduate Course on Civil Engineering Failures, Proceedings of ASCE Structures Congress, Las Vegas, NV, April 14-16, 2011.

Civil/Structural engineers design and maintain buildings ... They use modern analytical techniques (e.g., finite elements) to predict behavior of new structures and to analyze failures in existing ...