NEW ORLEANS — The incident in Baltimore is getting such a big reaction from people across Southeast Louisiana because there are so many bridges in this area. Many of us travel across them daily.

Rachel Sangree is an associate teaching professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins University's Whiting School of Engineering and also program chair in civil ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore left people questioning the safety of truss bridges after a cargo ship took it out. Thomas O’Fallon is a senior structural ...

Bridges have always been one of the most awe-inspiring marvels of engineering. However, in the last few decades, record-breaking structures have redefined bridge building and taken it to a new level.

The concept is applied to an innovative multi-column accelerated bridge construction (ABC) pier concept. Different types of structural fuses are investigated to compare the effect of each on ABC ...

Architect Masoud Akbarzadeh and research assistant Boyu Xiao of the Weitzman School of Design, along with collaborators including Yao Lu of Jefferson University, defied conventional engineering by ...

Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge was gone in a flash early Tuesday after a cargo ship collided with one of its pillars, snapping the structure into pieces and sending it tumbling into the water ...

Teng Wu, a faculty member specializing in structural, bridge and wind engineering, has been awarded the 2018 International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) prize for his ...

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A couple of broken bridge parts took center stage when the Rhode Island Department of Transportation closed the westbound lanes of the Washington Bridge in December, citing the potential for a ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. The cargo ship collision that destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in ...