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You have a funny definition of easily. The impact force has been estimated as between 120MN and 230MN. I doubt there exist many bridges that can take that hit.
by Tuna-Fish 3y ago
You have a funny definition of easily. The impact force has been estimated as between 120MN and 230MN. I doubt there exist many bridges that can take that hit. The kind of ship impact protection that bridges usually have are not built to take a 150000t ship at 8kn.
- tzs 3y agoBridges can be designed to handle that kind of collision. This article discusses some of the ways it can be done [1]. [1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-to-protect-bridges-from-ships-baltimore-key-bridge-collapse/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-to-protect-bridges-from-shi...
- zitterbewegung 3y agoFrom the article : Theoretically, you could build a structure that would never fail, but you'd have to put infinite money into it. For a critical bridge of this type, we would consider an acceptable chance for failure to be 1 in 10,000 years. And at that point why not do a cost benefit analysis of a tunnel?