Template:Did you know nominations/Shear vane

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 00:01, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Shear vane[edit]

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... that the shear vane was developed for testing soils but has also been used on snow to determine the risk of an avalanche forming? "The idea of a rotational shear vane to measure shear strength is not a new one. A simple device was tested by Keeler and Weeks, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in the 60’s ... Civil engineers have been using a simple shear vane for decades to sample soil strengths. Shear strength is also one of the main factors contributing to slab avalanche release."

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Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 14:47, 2 October 2018 (UTC).

Article was created within the last seven days, is over the required length and has no copyvio concerns. Hook is supported by an inline citation and the user has supplied a QPQ review. Good to go. Kosack (talk) 19:07, 2 October 2018 (UTC)