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I can't help but look at the roads and sidewalks and think there's a solution that could be implemented there. I'm no engineer, but I expect that you could inst
by bryondowd 11y ago
I can't help but look at the roads and sidewalks and think there's a solution that could be implemented there. I'm no engineer, but I expect that you could install something along the fault line that allows the road to slide apart without disruption. It seems like a waste to just keep repaving the same spot over and over, just for it to crack again.
Maybe tear up a couple feet of pavement and put in two metal grates that can slide past each other. That should at least buy you a decent amount of time, until the road is so warped that the lanes don't line up.
- ovis 11y agoThe Alyeska pipeline in Alaska is built on rails just like this over the parts near the Denali Fault. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/2002/TAPSatDenaliFault.gif http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/2002/...
- pavel_lishin 11y agoI stared at that for far too long, waiting for the animation to start.
- BinaryIdiot 11y agoThis was one of my thoughts as well; as a software developer I'm always trying to figure out solutions to problems but I know just about nothing when it comes to civil engineering. So naturally I keep coming up with crazy ideas to prevent / fix this and none of them are probably feasible :) But it's certainly interesting to review stuff on the internet about how structures can avoid these issues.