Illustrated article describes construction of vehicular and pedestrian tunnel under Maas River, Rotterdam, Holland; design features use of 9 prefabricated concrete sections 81 × 28 × 201 ft, that were sunk and connected under water with aid of 81-ft diving bell; capacity of tunnel cited as 12 million vehicles, 32,000 pedestrians and 3200 bicycles per yr; underwater and overall lengths are 1926 and 3528 ft respectively.
Precision control is sinking prefabricated sections for Maas tunnel
Eng News-Rec
Engineering News-Record ; 136 , n 10
1946
5 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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Arbeitsgruppe Hochwasser Maas (AHM). Aktionsplan Hochwasser Maas
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