The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has developed a ten-by-five-metre inflatable structure that could be quickly deployed to isolate sections of transit or rail tunnels in the event of ...

Researchers tested a simple but ingenious approach to limiting damages in flooding tunnels. To take part in the Machine Design infrastructure survey, click here. Flooding due to natural disaster or ...

A giant inflatable plug that can be filled with 35,000 gallons of water at a moment’s notice could have prevented some of the flooding that crippled New York City’s transit in the wake of Sandy, ...

The Department of Homeland Security is working to develop a giant plug for a giant subway tunnel. via NewsFeed Contact us at [email protected] ...

Huge inflatable plugs – now being developed by the federal government to protect subway tunnels from terrorist attacks – likely could have saved some of New York’s subway tunnels from storm-related ...

Experts have provided a solution for stopping flooding in subway tunnels in the form of a giant inflatable plug that will seal them off and stop water from flowing throughout the subway system into ...