{"id":699,"date":"2012-08-09T02:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T06:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=699"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:27:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:27:18","slug":"formula-for-constructing-perfect-sandcastles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/formula-for-constructing-perfect-sandcastles\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula for constructing perfect sandcastles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from F<em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/08\/sandcastle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-700\" title=\"sandcastle\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/08\/sandcastle-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><\/em>rance, Iran, and the Netherlands have published a journal article on \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/srep\/2012\/120802\/srep00549\/full\/srep00549.html\">How to construct the perfect sandcastle<\/a>\u201d in Nature Publishing Group\u2019s <em>Scientific Reports<\/em>.\u00a0 They present a mathematical formula for building stable sandcastles, which can be used on land or below water.<\/p>\n<p>According to the authors, the study\u2019s \u201cresults are of practical interest for civil engineering and soil mechanics\u2026 In addition, it explains the maximum height of, and provides us with a recipe to construct, the perfect sandcastle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencenordic.com\/how-build-perfect-sandcastle\">ScienceNordic<\/a>, one of the authors also explains in layman\u2019s terms how it can be applied to building sandcastles on the beach.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sandyfeet\/3417400437\/\">Sandyfeet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from France, Iran, and the Netherlands have published a journal article on \u201cHow to construct the perfect sandcastle\u201d in Nature Publishing Group\u2019s Scientific Reports.\u00a0 They present a mathematical formula for building stable sandcastles, which can be used on land &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/formula-for-constructing-perfect-sandcastles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,8],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-engineering","tag-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}