TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL

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TRANS - ATLANTIC TUNNEL
NEWYORK
LONDON
54 MINUTES
GUIDED BY Ms.AISWARYA. K .LALAJI

• PRESENTED BY,
• AISWARYA.A. KUMAR
• Roll no 1
• Reg no1205761

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CONTENTS
PATH
HISTORY
FACILITIES
CONSTRUCTION
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PATH
Iceland
Greenland
Norway

• Route depends on

Canada

• Earlier proposed path passes through
  Canada,Greenland ,Iceland and Norway.
• Practical path 3100 mile undersea.

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TIMELINE
1895
Jules .Verne suggested idea
1888
Ernst .G. Frankel proposed idea
1935
Film named Trans -atlantic released
Harry. Harison wrote science fiction
1972
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FACILITIES PROVIDED
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• Power and communication
• Power provided by generators to substations in
  tunnel
• Service tube provides power and communication

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• Safety
• Massive GPS monitors tunnel as well as its entire
  cables
• For any shift in seafloor automated system get
  works by retensioning of cables
• Sensors watch problems and computers would be in
  disaster mode

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• Change in speed
• Passenger discomfort caused
• Solutions
• Use pivoting /rotating seats
• Airlock

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Fire

• Most concerned problem faced by tunnel engineer
• Massive suppression systems installed

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MATERIALS OF TRANSATLANTIC
Steel
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Have a look on how it would be built???
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METHODS OF CONSTRUCTION

• A)IMMERSION TUNNEL
• Tunnel section
• Tunnel sections would be made in Holland
  factories
• Concrete is poured and made to set
• Each 300 foot long section consumes 30,000 tonnes
  of steel and concrete
• 54,000 sections needed for trans -atlantic

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• 2) Moved to sea
• Each section sealed tight with steel buckells at
  each end
• Dry dock flooded and massive tubes towed to sea

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Contd

• 3)Keep in position
• Immersion pontoon carry each section directly
  above its position in underwater
• It is partially flooded cause it to sink
• Divers place sections in right place

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• 4)Join different sections
• Lining done on each joint
• Huge rubber gaskets used
• Above method was used
• in construction of BART

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• B)SUBMERGED FLOATING TUNNEL
• Transatlantic would be seen 150 -300
• m below surface
• Advantages
• Deep enough to avoid interference
• Avoid high pressure resistance at bottom
• Feasible
• Firstly proposed in Norway

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• VAC TRAIN
• Forces that reduce speed
• Friction(Maglev)
• Airresistance(Vaglev)
• Vaglev provided by 100 jets working 24 hours for
  2 weeks
• Provides 6400-8000 kmph

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Methods to keep tunnel in position
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• INSERTION OF PIERS
• Piers are inserted in rivers and streams at
  regular interval
• Acts as underwater bridge
• Cost is thousands of dollars

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• SUPPORT FROM TOP
• Huge floating pontoons
• might hold tunnel in
• position from top
• Atlantic currents carries
• 100 times water a day
• Home to Gulf stream

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• SYSTEM IN OIL PLANT
• Uses
• Steel pipes
• Suction anchors
• Suction of water creates vaccum
• Works on principle of upside
• pendulum

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Hindrances in construction
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Contd
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Compare TAT with winners in Sea and Air
FEATURES TRANSATLANTIC CONCORD BLUERIBAND
Speed 6400-8000 kmph 2179 kmph 47.15 knots
Time 52 min 3 hours 3 days 15 hours 25 min
Passenger Capacity 100 1500
Fuel used Uses electricity Jet A-1 Energy efficient
Intial Cost 17 billion- 13 trillion 7 million 173.3 million
Accidents Paris Incident Weather,Collided with ice berg
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CONCLUSION

• If ever built transatlantic tunnel would be
  massive construction project in human history
• It is an idea for which every civil engineer must
  be proud of.
• The words of Frank Davison Trans atlantic is
  not beyond reach of modern science and
  technology reveals it can happen in near future
• The main hindrances are time and cost

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REFERENCES

• Harry Harrison(1972)Tunnel through
  Deep,Analog Magazine,April issue
• Taylor and Francis Journal of Transatlantic
  Studies,2002
• Vaccum tube train by Carl Hoffman,April 13,2004
• University of Nairobi(2012),Student
  Engineer,September-October 2012

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