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Design for a skidway
Hi, I'm looking for some innovative and low cost ideas to improve our skidway. We have a 110 ton, 18 m long, 12 m wide ferry which we have been dry docking every fall on timbers burried in the ground. The ferry is pulled up over 30 m on a 15% grade. Will probably replace the timbers with old...- Skyenew
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- Forum: Coastal Engineering General Discussion
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Designing a ferry skidway
Hi, I'm looking for some innovative and low cost ideas to improve our skidway. We have a 110 ton, 18 m long, 12 m wide ferry which we have been dry docking every fall on timbers burried in the ground. The ferry is pulled up over 30 m on a 15% grade. Will probably replace the timbers with old...- Skyenew
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- Forum: Marine/Ocean engineering other topics
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Superpave
Marshall mix had worked in the past for us, but the reason we're looking into PG binders is because of low temperature thermal cracking. The PG binders should eliminate the thermal cracking, but is it worth all the fuss of switching over?- Skyenew
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- Forum: Civil/Environmental engineering general discussion
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Superpave
Hi, I'm doing some research to determine if a territorial government in northern Canada should consider switching from traditional Marshall mix to Superpave. We have logistics constraints due to our isolation and limited population base. I've done tons of reading, but curious to hear from...- Skyenew
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- Forum: Civil/Environmental engineering general discussion
