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The Marmaray tunnel: The feat of assembling an underwater tunnel 60 meters deep on an active seismic fault

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The Marmaray tunnel: The feat of assembling an underwater tunnel 60 meters deep on an active seismic fault

Connecting Europe and Asia under the Bosphorus Strait using gigantic concrete modules submerged with millimeter precision.

marmaray
civil engineering
bosphorus

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Brunel's shield: The mollusk-inspired machine that made underground engineering possible

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Brunel's shield: The mollusk-inspired machine that made underground engineering possible

In the 19th century, observing a tiny naval wood-borer solved the greatest dilemma in tunneling.

civil engineering
tunnel boring machine
biomimicry

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