The Three Gorges Dam is rapidly failing.

Do please expound on the elasticity of concrete.

Orville damn or bust!

Wow you TDS tards just dont stop...

What a fucking ex-spurt

I’ve been following this since July and, unless there is a large earthquake, the 3GD is unlikely to fail this year but that doesn’t mean a horrific disaster has not occurred. It looked like it could happen around the end of July or in mid-late August, but the CCP diverted the water by blowing up levees, dikes, and numerous smaller dams, almost always without alerting those who would be affected beforehand. If they had told them, they would have had to pay them. Thousands have surely died, if not even tens of thousands. And who knows how many more will die, as the flooded areas were predominantly farmland. They have admitted to losing at least 5% of the rice, which, as with all things bad revealed by the CCP, add a zero. Half gone.

All the China haters will have expired before the dam.

No doubt, I worked with it for years doing cast stone using pumice as the mix. I don't recall it ever being elstaic in nature.

Why reply to that twat . He actually expects to find civil engineers here , yet he cannot be civil to strangers .

There are civil engineers here. You'd be surprised by the skill levels of many GuLPers...

That's true actually. I wish there where more, but over the years I've seen quite a few well informed discussions.

Wait do you live in England or America? I figured England cause your profile.

I've lived in California for near half my life and the UK the rest. I have dual citizenship.

I always wondered why it was built in a completely straight line, rather than like a curved line, as dams are always built.

The three gorges dam was not built using the standard 1 kilo per litre of water as the guideline for the mass of water in the river but 0.8 kilos per litre of water.
The problems are mounting up, the water in the yangtze is not clear like lakes with dams, but, it is a river and it is full of particulates, the water per litre in the yangtze with the clay and other aluvials can be as much as 2.4 kilos per litre. it may be that the estimates they give for the safety levels of the dam are already around 80% over the max tolerances, this means the dam is degrading at around 15 - 20 days per day of existence under nominal stress loads. During the rainy season, 3 years worth of damage imparted into the structure as weakness could be the truth of a single season. if no remedial work is undertaken, the dam would see no more than 15 more years.

Scientists. Scientists everywhere. OMG!!!!!

NICE OLD TOPIC. THERE ARE BIG FLOODS THERE NOW. IS THERE ANY
NEW NEWS?

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I UNDERSTAND NOW..DUE TO THE 2ND CLASS CITIZENSHIP OF THINGS
HERE @GULP.


SO, FRANKLY A WEAK CHINUH IS GOOD FOR THE WORLD. AND HUMAN
CIVILIZATION.

Predicted it would.

China will be crying for mercy! India special forces could provide a little help for the dam. A week after the dam gives, China has to be hit very very hard, remove that industrial capacity. Stop the war machine in its tracks. If the Russian Federation was smart, they should strike like lightening removing all of China's strategic capabilities and move in to slice the dragon's neck. Then North Korea could sweep in from the South. China needs to be ruled by better people. Move the capital to Hong Kong. Hong Kong rocks!

Is it still rapidly failing?

TOTALLY..

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Video is 2 years old.

LOL you mean like they began evacuation in new Orleans...after

Any updates on these floods in Beijing?

Good to know a Youtuber is keeping a close eye on things.

Or the use of rubber springs as a foundation hell just the construction of a rubber spring.

I’m a civil engineer and you’re right. To a point. Things can only flex so much before structural failure. You’d be amazed how easy that can be.