Machines | How a Tunnel-Boring Machine Drills Underground
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Video courtesy of CDM/HMM Joint Venture - For engineering enthusiasts and anyone who's interested in the mechanics of siphon construction, this animation shows exactly how the 110-ton, 300-foot-long tunnel boring machine will drill a distance of nearly two miles, 100 feet beneath the New York Harbor seabed. Find out more about the Staten Island Water Siphon project: http://www.nycedc.com/project/replacement-anchorage-channel-water-siphons
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Now how do we make it autonomous wink wink ;)
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boooooring!!
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trumo 2016
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This video is as boring as the machine itself.
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I want to build a canal cutting machine.
It would cut a slot thru the earth in less time than the old fashion way.
Basically, it would be a huge huge circular saw designed to cut thru soil and solid rock of all types.
The idea is to cut a canal the distance from San Diego all the way to the Gulf of Mexico.
Thus connecting the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, thus redirecting all shipping traffic from the Zika Infected Panama Canal to The American Canal.
It would be powered by portable windmills or nuclear energy.
If you can give me an estimated cost of a single machine, I can get the ball rolling on Kick Starter. -
A few questions on the TbM is it powered electric ? Whats the max distance you can bore would it do 120 km underground land over head/few lakes and rivers over head.? The cost per meter/ kilometer to bore.Can it drilling hard rock or is it soil mainly its boring .
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we should automate one of these things and send it straight down. see what the center of the earth looks like.
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is it possible to make a submarine machine like with drill head to drill tunnels under water from sea to other sea lol
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Now im not the smartes guy in the world but, couldn't you guys have modified the mixing chamber with some kind of feeding tube that works with pressure or hydrolics, and would now connect to an errection system to convey the smuck out of there and eliminate the screw conveyor. As I watch this video i get so many ideas of intricate mechanics works and what not. Thank you this video is fascinating.
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if this machine gets stuck/jammed is there a process to reverse the machine, or can it only be retrieved at the other end of the tunnel?
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i head the new Skytrain Line Public Service was originally due Summer 2016. but moved to Fall 2016 due to the slowing process of the TBM. because of the 2 sinkholes during boring. my possible predictions are that there could be new sinkholes on clark road, which can cause serious injuries and worst possible cases: death.
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This is a boring video.
Get it?
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Amazing
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You just saved my school presentation, thanks! :D
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Why?!
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Pressure... Not gonna work.
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Nearlly shit my pants at the 2:55 mark when the wall started to fall.
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This machine isnt boring, I found it quite interesting. wakka wakka
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THANKS
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i had a friend who made this but he was melted