Infrastructure: Start to Repair The Elevator in Mount Everest

Li Qi put his hands on the table and made himself stand firmer. I didn't dare to sit down, coughing constantly as soon as I sat down.

"The process of building the support is a difficult and long project. It accounts for 70% of our total project!"

"After the support is set up, the speed of splicing the elevator track will increase, and the erection of the track is the easiest. Therefore, our focus should be placed on the content of tomorrow's work!"

Li Ming raised a question: "Host, we all know that in the design drawings, the most difficult step is actually to build the support. So what I want to know is, what is the appropriate depth of each of our supports?"

Li Qi looked at the sand table model, then looked at the construction drawings, and fell into a long period of deep thought:

"Three thousand nodes. The length of 13,000 meters..."

"One node requires at least 20 beams to support. Three thousand nodes require at least 60,000 beams...one month, the assumption of 60,000 beams. This construction is very difficult!"

Li Qi gritted his teeth and said:

"Each beam must go deep into the mountain. Whether it is blasted or drilled by an electric drill, every foundation pit on the mountain must have a depth of more than ten meters. Especially in the section of the high wind opening, it must exceed The depth is 15 meters, and then concrete is poured. Only in this way can it withstand the erection of the rails."

Ten meters deep!

The people present were a little silent.

Drilling on the mountain wall to a depth of ten meters, sixty thousand!

The total length of the excavated mountain has reached 600,000 meters, and the work is on the highest peak of Mount Everest!

This is where the real difficulty lies in the construction of Mount Everest!

Li Ming said solemnly: "The three thousand nodes have all been explored. But now there are several key issues."

"You speak."

Li Ming said solemnly: "The construction of the 1,000 nodes of the big tuyere is too difficult. We have analyzed the weather, and in the next month, the wind at the big tuyere will remain above level ten, even several times. A category 12 hurricane. And the wind speed is extremely fast. The difficulty of our construction will increase indefinitely!"

Li Qi asked: "Is there a way to overcome it?"

Li Ming thought for a while: "I will find a way."

Li Qi nodded: "What about other problems?"

Li Ming said:

"The second question is that in addition to the brackets, the track must have a strong support point. Do we use pillars supported from the ground. Or choose arched brackets in bridge construction?"

"Arch!"

Li Qi pointed to his feet: "Buy the pile foundation from the base camp. Pull up a 20,000-meter arch bridge, and use steel cables to suspend the elevator rails under the arch bridge."

"Pure steel pillars are not enough to support, because its own weight is too large, such support is fragile. And in the form of an arch bridge, this will save materials to the greatest extent, and will not damage the mountain."

"Moreover, this arch bridge starts from the base camp and only needs to be built above the big vent. As long as the big vent is passed, the remaining distance of more than one thousand meters is not a problem. There is no more perfect structure than an arch bridge."

"Yes!"

Li Qi patted the table and said excitedly:

"In the first stage, three thousand nodes, a total of sixty thousand supporting beams are constructed!"

"The second stage is the construction of ten steel arch bridges measuring 20,000 meters!"

"The third stage, rail assembly."

"The first and second phases will start construction at the same time. The time is tight and the tasks are heavy. Do you understand?"

"Understood!"

With a ‘pop’, Li Qi snapped his fingers:

"At six in the morning, the cannon was fired, and the groundbreaking ceremony. At seven in the morning, it officially began to cough and cough... officially began the first miracle in history..."

After speaking, Li Qi coughed violently, and a ball of blood flew out of his mouth, dripping onto the construction drawings.

Li Ming stared with both eyes: "Host, your pulmonary edema is a bit severe..."

"Get down the mountain. You are in urgent need of treatment now!"

"Quick, send the host down the mountain!"

Li Qi hesitated for a while, then slowly shook his head:

"Now at two o'clock in the morning, there are four hours left before the groundbreaking ceremony... I must preside over it."

After thinking for a while, Li Qi picked up a bottle of oxygen and took a deep breath: “Acute pulmonary edema does not have a good cure, but only cultivates and maintains the oxygen supply. It’s the same everywhere. After 48 hours, I got used to it. After altitude sickness, it will be better."

After speaking, Li Qi sighed. This body needs to hold on for a while, not to lose the chain at such a critical moment.

Thinking in his heart, Li Qi looked through the window to the world's highest peak under the galaxy. It is majestic, tall, and magnificent above the clouds, seeming to overlook its own ants...

But tomorrow, will conquer you! .

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