http://www.beingbrunel.com/ice-bridges-2014-part-three/ The Civil Engineering Blog Sun, 26 Aug 2018 07:37:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.10 http://www.beingbrunel.com/ice-bridges-2014-part-three/#comment-10405 Tue, 28 Jun 2016 12:00:46 +0000 http://www.beingbrunel.com/?p=2585#comment-10405 […] ever checked back to see if your 1:50 year drainage scheme survived the last storm? Can you tell me just how underutilised one of your structures was during its life? Is your road already filled with traffic despite it […]

]]> http://www.beingbrunel.com/ice-bridges-2014-part-three/#comment-7411 Mon, 13 Jul 2015 21:30:08 +0000 http://www.beingbrunel.com/?p=2585#comment-7411 […] amazing how many conservative approximate approaches we take as being accurate. Cheap monitoring is already available to show us the truth behind our long-held […]

]]> http://www.beingbrunel.com/ice-bridges-2014-part-three/#comment-7381 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 14:12:38 +0000 http://www.beingbrunel.com/?p=2585#comment-7381 […] feel a bit like I’m being stalked by the new Forth bridge, whose progress I’ve accidentally followed closely; although thanks to Thomas I now know that it’s a bridge, and not a tunnel, […]

]]> http://www.beingbrunel.com/ice-bridges-2014-part-three/#comment-932 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 16:16:05 +0000 http://www.beingbrunel.com/?p=2585#comment-932 As a physicist, I find all this talk about bridges (i.e. the real world) fascinating, particularly the info on the Forth Bridge: 15:1 maintenance vs. build-costs.
I love telling people that it’s the engineers who made our modern world, not us scientists (this really annoys the scientists!). Keep up the good work guys – we need you.
Also, keep up the posts, Tom. it keeps us (at least, me) grounded.

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