Due to environmental conditions in Canada, freeze-thaw cycles, road salt and moisture are serving to accelerate cracking and surface deterioration of concrete bridges.
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The term DEI has increasingly been co-opted to attack and undermine the positions, qualifications and abilities of racialized people.
A civil engineer lays out the physics behind Dali’s crash into the Francis Scott Key Bridge pier.
The collapse of the Francis Scott Key bridge is already affecting global supply chains.
A cargo ship leaving the Port of Baltimore collided with a bridge in a technological disaster that may have claimed the lives of up to six maintenance workers on the bridge at the time.
A bridge engineering expert discusses the costs and limitations of building structures to withstand extreme events – and what it takes to prepare the next generation of civil engineers.
We’ll need to learn the lessons from this disaster.
A civil engineer explains why ships taking out bridges is rare, and describes how bridge builders protect the structures from ship collisions.
A supply chain expert looks at the short- and long-term impacts of the bridge collapse.
Bridges are getting safer – but their designers need to keep up with the ever-growing size of cargo ships.
Transportation agencies plan for events like major bridge or highway collapses, but these events can disrupt traffic for months and affect residential neighborhoods as well as motorists.
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