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Truly impressive design and engineering work here! Not to mention the commitment to the project.

• tempodox 7y ago
  > ...commitment... When 26% of your country lies below sea level you tend to be motivated ;-)
  • digitalengineer 7y ago
    This. That is why people here prefer to go at it together. They’ve been joining forces for centuries to battle the water. (Next to the Afsluitdijk is the “Oude Bildtdijk“. It was made in the year 1500.
  • pinkfoot 7y ago
    Really? It hasn’t motivated Bangladesh.
    • Fnoord 7y ago
      Not successfully, but it has motivated e.g. Japan to combat earthquakes (with building design). On top of that, Bangladesh is a poor country.
• wmkn 7y ago
  Interesting fact is that Hendrik Lorentz, the Nobel prize winning physicist, did much of the calculations on how the tide would affect the structure. Based on his calculations the structure was moved to a spot were the movement of the water would have less of an influence. It’s quite a feat of math and engineering considering that no computers were available to do real simulations. Interesting paper describing some history and some of the math involved: https://ilorentz.org/history/zuiderzee/Lorentz_linearisation.pdf https://ilorentz.org/history/zuiderzee/Lorentz_linearisation...