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In January this year, students of the Technical University Eindhoven in the Netherlands was built from frozen water copy of the famous Temple of the Holy Family. Inspired by your success, students decided to build an ice bridge designed at one time Leonardo da Vinci. It is worth this idea embodied in life, and in Europe will appear the longest icy planet viaduct.
The current record for the longest ice structure belongs to the dome-house, which was built a year ago as part of the Scandinavian competition. Its length was almost thirty meters. The netherlands intend to build a fifty-meter bridge, the equal of which has not yet It was.
Students chose pikerit as a building material. Pikerit is a structural material in the composition which includes frozen water, as well as sawdust or paper fibers. It has been proven that sawdust and paper make ice much stronger. Today they want to start using pikerite for erection of cheap and durable temporary structures in conditions cold climate, for example, for laying roads in the Arctic.
The bridge design was originally developed by Leonardo da Vinci for Istanbul in 1502 December this year through February next Dutch students and volunteers helping them build a fifty-meter bridge somewhere in the north of Europe. Construction expected to support the weight of a standard passenger cars.
Water Bridges
