Drying mud with repeated wetting cycles
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Channel: Stephen Morris · 2015 · Science & Technology
A layer of K Bentonite clay is dried, wetted and dried again through 45 cycles. You can see how the crack pattern evolves from mostly T junctions and square "peds" to Y junctions and 6 sided peds. Film by Mary Miedema See http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/nonlinear/papers_mud.html
