Anchors Lock Down “Soft Ground”
Sweeping across the tidal flats, the Xiamen Xiang’an International Airport in Fujian is taking shape. Not far away, the foundation pit for Airport West Station, the transfer station between Xiamen Metro Lines 3 and 4, has been backfilled, with 1,728 pressure-dispersed, retrievable anchors having “completed their mission.” These steel “skeletons,” with a total length of…