When a body of cohesionless soil is saturated, water fills the pore spaces between each particle.
当无粘性土壤饱和时,水会填充每个颗粒之间的孔隙空间。
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Liquefaction happens when soil experiences an applied stress, like an earthquake, that causes it to behave like a liquid, and it mostly happens in cohesionless soils - those where the grains don't stick together, such as sand.