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Civil engineering
Smeaton's Tower, a red and white striped lighthouse, stands on a grassy area overlooking the water at Plymouth Hoe in Plymouth, England.
Bridge to the mainland
Lobito
California Aqueduct
Large concrete dam under construction with cranes, scaffolding, and construction materials, part of the Yamba dam project in Gunma Prefecture, Japan.
Tsuruga
Trans-Alaska Pipeline
Side-by-side diagrams compare the trench and area methods of constructing a sanitary landfill, showing waste collection trucks and bulldozers layering compacted solid waste with daily and final earth covers on original ground, with labeled parts but without liners or leachate systems.
Rows of solar panels and tall wind turbines generating renewable energy on a snow covered plateau in Golmud, China.
Know how civil and environmental engineers understand the mechanics of thin structures and how they use geometry to study the deformation process
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