Comments by "TheEvertw" (@TheEvertw) on "Japan's $40BN Kansai Airport is Sinking" video.

  1. This is a wonderful piece of engineering. And it will continue to be used for many, many decades. Funny how people used to underestimate the subsidence of soils. We have a bridge across the IJssel river at Deventer that was completed in 1972. The bridge was designed with some pylons in the waterway. Scientists were called in to estimate the subsidence for each pylon, using (for the time) advanced numerical simulations. With one pylon, the subsidence was a LOT more than the engineers expected, so they instead assumed a smaller value, assuming a computer error had been made. There is now a permanent dip in the bridge at that exactly spot.
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