Next message: Len den Besten: "[world-cruising] Re: Emergency water"
--- In , Wayne Laurents <laurents at dot dot dot >
wrote:
> >> To those who appreciate engineering projects, here's a puzzle for
you
> >> armchair engineers and physicists. Did that bridge have to be
> >> designed to withstand the additional weight of ship and barge
> >> traffic, or just the weight of the water?
Well, of course, if the water is kept at a constant depth, then just
the water. If the water displaced by the ships/barges remains in the
channel then, of course, the bridge needs to handle both ship and
water. I suspect that it is set up to operate as the former.
eric S/V Nebaras
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