This article describes technologies for preventing damage to telecommunication cables inside conduits attached to bridges. Although major bridges in Japan have recently been retrofitted to make them into seismically isolated structures as part of an earthquake-proofing program, existing telecommunication conduits attached to such bridges were not designed to cope with the large displacements produced by major earthquakes. We have examined the deformation capabilities required of such conduits and developed suitable technologies using commercially available materials.
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