Soil Collapse Demo

The soil collapse demo team has made some excellent progress making a scaled version of a soil column. Their goal is to demonstrate the impacts of soil collapse on breathing and to simulate the actual lateral loads caused by collapsed soil. The team has built a soil box with pressure sensors, a bulb and tube design so that worker can feel the pressure that would be exerted on lungs, and a mechanism to simulate increased loads. Its pretty cool.

Zach and Cristina figuring out the pressure tubing, which will simulate lungs.

The pressure sensors in the box

Mar showing the removable slide to show the internal components in the box.

Nice work, team!