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Sounds like someone needs to invent some sort of expansion joint. I assume its a hard engineering problem with significant trade offs.
by N_A_T_E 4y ago
Sounds like someone needs to invent some sort of expansion joint. I assume its a hard engineering problem with significant trade offs.
- Ekaros 4y agoThere is probably one, but the design was done for temperature range outside the current conditions. You can accommodate only for so much and at some point it make sense to say yeah, this temperature is good enough. There is very likely some trade-offs involved as well.
- chrisseaton 4y ago> Sounds like someone needs to invent some sort of expansion joint. As the article says, there basically isn't the money or will to fix the problem, so they're leaving it as is.
- iggldiggl 4y agoSuch things exist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breather_switch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breather_switch), but so far they've been mostly only used for localised expansion/contraction/movement hotspots, i.e. bridges longer that 50 – 100 m or so.