Chapter 182 Is this a transport vehicle? A land-based aircraft carrier!
[Working all night? Are they all crazy! ]

[Look at that man, he's hung on a rack! Is his life in danger? ]

"Oh my god, honey, look!"

Following the direction of Anna's finger, Chen Lu saw a construction worker leaning on an iron frame.

"Should we call the police to rescue him?"

Chen Lu shook his head: "He fell asleep."

[Sleep, fell asleep? ]

[Is this man a monkey? How can he sleep at a height of dozens of meters? ]

"I think he was too tired. He wanted to come down after finishing his work, but he was exhausted halfway up and fell asleep accidentally."

Chen Lu sighed. He didn’t expect the construction workers to work so hard.

They might have actually worked all night!

Although he is protected, his life will not be in danger.

But this is really too much effort!

Why is China Infrastructure leading the world?

It's not only because of our technology, but also because of our construction workers!

They are the most hardworking and diligent construction workers in the world!
Without them, China would not have achieved what it has today.

The architect in the live broadcast room was stunned. The efficiency was too high!

The bridge deck, weighing more than 2,000 tons, was almost completed in less than a day!
The original doubts about China have now turned into admiration.

Especially when he saw the construction worker sleeping against the scaffolding, he was so shocked that he was speechless.

China really has the cutest people in the world!

With these most lovely people around, what can't they do?

Wherever your heart goes, wherever your body goes, that’s where you will end up!
However, what he is more curious about now is how China will install the new bridge?

The real difficulty of the overall bridge replacement technology lies in installing the new bridge.

Although demolishing the old bridge is challenging, it is not that difficult.

Compared with the difficulty of installing a new bridge, it is really not worth mentioning.

The difficulty lies in how to install the new bridge in the designated position without any deviation, otherwise it will leave hidden dangers for the bridge.

This is a problem that is a headache for all countries in the world. How should China solve it?

[Is it time to install a new bridge next? ]

[The old bridge weighed more than 2,000 tons, so the new bridge should be even heavier, right? ]

[No, I just checked, the official data given by China is 1,300 tons! ]

[The reason for the huge difference in weight between the two is that the materials used are different. 】

[Even if it's 1,300 tons, it's heavy enough. The new bridge can't be divided, right? How are the Chinese going to install it? ]

The reason why the original Sanyuan Bridge had a relatively short lifespan was that the concrete material of the bridge deck contained alkaline aggregate, which would continue to expand during the water absorption process, thus affecting the safety of the bridge deck structure.

This is also due to the limitations of the times. After all, Sanyuan Bridge was built in 1984, which is several decades ago.

Technology was far from being so advanced back then.

To overcome this problem, the new bridge deck of Sanyuan Bridge adopts pure steel structure, but the top of the pier still needs to be filled with concrete. In order to avoid the harm of alkali aggregate and extend the life of the bridge, the construction team uses basalt material instead of alkali aggregate.

This is a pioneering effort. This technology is applied in construction for the first time and can help significantly extend the life of Sanyuan Bridge.

Just as everyone was guessing how to install the new bridge, an extra-long truck appeared in everyone's sight.

The engineer recognized it at a glance. It was a pack cart, specially used to transport various large items, such as launch vehicles or large ships.

It is often used in the construction of large projects.

But why is this pack cart so big?
It’s ridiculously big, and you can’t see the end at a glance!

[Wat, why is this car so long? ]

[I searched on Google and found out that this vehicle is Huaxia's SMPT special transport vehicle, with more than a thousand wheels and eight engines! ]

[Ward? One, more than a thousand wheels? Is this really a car? ]

[I understand. China wants to use this vehicle to transport the new bridge. A vehicle with more than a thousand wheels is indeed enough to hold the new bridge!]

"Honey, this car is so long!" Anna said in surprise.

In her opinion, is this really a car?
It's better to say it's a train!
Oh yes, a train is also a car!
"This car has more than a thousand wheels, and it was completely independently developed by China. There are only five of them in the world!"

Chen Lu was very proud. It was so cool to see Anna looking like she had never seen the world!

In the past, when Li Hongzhang went abroad, he felt like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden, with a deep sense of powerlessness.

He told the reporter: "After I came to your country, I saw that you have one thousand-foot-high building after another, but in our Qing Empire, I have never seen such buildings, and there is no architect who can create these buildings.

But now, it's completely the opposite!
China is the Grand View Garden, and those foreigners are Granny Liu.

Whatever they can build, China can build as well, and faster and better than them!
What they cannot build, China can build!
In the past, China was on the defensive and was blocked everywhere.

But now, it is China's turn to strangle other countries!
Offensive and defensive changes!

This vehicle is called SMPT special transport vehicle, and it is a powerful weapon of a great power with only five of them in the world.

Moreover, this Chinese car is the best in the world in terms of both technological advancement and the maximum weight it can carry!

Many countries are willing to pay a large sum of money to purchase it, saying that you can name the price, as long as you sell the car to us.

China, however, just waved its hand and said it was a daydream!

SMPT special transport vehicles are only rented and not sold!
The car first appeared in public in 2009.

During the construction of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, this vehicle transported more than a thousand tons of prefabricated bridge components.

The vehicle has a total of 1152 wheels and eight engines, and each wheel can carry a maximum weight of tons.

"Wait, wait a minute, doesn't that mean that this car can carry more than 50,000 tons of cargo?" Anna said in surprise, counting on her little fingers.

Chen Lu nodded: "Yes, the maximum load capacity planned during the design is indeed more than 50,000 tons."

[Fifty thousand tons! This number is too terrifying! ]

[If I remember correctly, the load capacity of a light aircraft carrier is only 50,000 tons! ]

[The load capacity of a car is comparable to that of an aircraft carrier! ]

[Is this a car? This is clearly an aircraft carrier on land! ]

The full name of SMPT is Self-propelled Modular Transporter, which is specially designed to transport oversized special cargoes that are huge in size and weight and cannot be transported by conventional vehicles.

In this case, each set of its wheels can perform a full 360-degree steering.

(End of this chapter)