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To: 1Old Pro

Engineers should look at the Linn Cove Viaduct on the Blue Ridge Parkway for ideas on how to solve a tricky situation.


6 posted on 06/10/2024 7:38:46 AM PDT by ryderann
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“Engineers should look at the Linn Cove Viaduct on the Blue Ridge Parkway for ideas on how to solve a tricky situation.”

It was constructed from the pavement surface own, meaning each section was built with its far end temporarily unsupported. Construction worked down from each unsupported end to make a pier to support that end and to build the next section, and so on.

Temporary supports were also used along the way. See wikipedia entry.


20 posted on 06/10/2024 8:10:54 AM PDT by cymbeline (we saw men break out of a concentration camp.”)
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