Saturday, July 25, 2020

How To Stop A Colossal Bridge Corroding


Dehumidifier air is continuously pumped into the spaces between individual cables. 
Inspection involves hammering a wedge into the cable, and removing a segment for inspection and splicing a replacement back in, then compressing the cable back to its compact baseline with a 100-ton jack. Wow. Why can't they just insert an analyzer probe into the wedged-open cable, and not impair the integrity of the cable? 

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