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The Deadly Engineering Failures Behind the Surfside Collapse
On June 24, 2021, a portion of Champlain Towers South, a 12-story condominium in Surfside, Florida, near Miami Beach, collapsed around 1:30 am. It was one of the most deadly structural collapses in U.
For structural engineer Glenn Bell, the collapse on July 17, 1981, of a pedestrian bridge inside the Hyatt Regency Kansas City Hotel—which killed 114 people and injured more than 200—stands out as a ...
The Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers recently announced the launch of a U.S. version of the U.K.’s Confidential Reporting on Structural Safety program. SEI ...
The federal government wants to know why three of the buildings at the World Trade Center suffered complete structural collapse on Sept. 11 and is willing to spend time and money to find out. The ...
Shortly after 2 p.m. Thursday, staff members at Altru Health System’s main clinic heard a crack in the wall near the pharmacy. They noticed the wall was sagging about 2 inches below the tile, saw a ...
A world-renowned structural engineer who consulted on major disasters like the 9/11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon and the bridge collapse at Florida International University has reportedly been ...
Learn to address the likelihood of structural failure. Perform risk analysis associated with environmental loads to structures under static and dynamic loadings. Master the basics of performance-based ...
Amid a rescue mission now in its fifth day, engineers and government officials are trying to determine how a Surfside, Florida, condominium tower crashed to the ground, seemingly without warning.
The probable cause of the American Airlines Flight 587 crash on Nov. 12, 2001, was "in-flight separation of the vertical stabilizer as a result of the loads beyond ultimate design that were created by ...
Civil/Structural engineers design and maintain buildings, bridges, and other structures constructed from various materials (concrete, steel, timber, masonry, and reinforced plastics). They use modern ...
Reinforced concrete parking garages are a critical component of urban infrastructure, addressing the growing need for efficient parking solutions due to urbanization and increased vehicular demand.
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