Question: What is your most successful experiment and how did you think it went?

Natalie Wride answered on 15 Jun 2016:

Hi 888envf43 🙂

All of my experiments all link together. I’m quite early on in my lab tests at the moment so a lot of them are the same test. We need to run lab tests more than once to fully be able to understand the behaviour of the soil – between tests I keep try to keep everything the same (same soil, lab conditions) and just change how hard the soil is being hit! It’s really cool because at the moment I’m running tests to make the soil fail (these are called destructive tests). Some of my tests run for over 35,000 cycles of load – that’s the soil being hit 35,000 times at roughly 2 hits per second!!

These are probably my most successful tests – the results seem to show what I want them too (I can’t say much more than that at the moment though until I publish my findings for other people to read). Whilst I’ve not started other tests yet, I’m going to x-raying my samples (the same way you get an x-ray if you break your arm) which will be pretty cool so I’m really looking forward to that!

Do you get to do any experiments at school? If so, what is your favourite or most interesting experiment you’ve done?