Sensors cannot replace bridge inspectors. They can help engineers see corrosion, cracks, scour and weak magnetic signals that eyes alone can miss.
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To ensure the safety of Canada’s aging infrastructure, policymakers must be proactive instead of reactive.
Concrete is the most widely used construction material, so developing ways to make it more durable can improve infrastructure and save millions in costs.
Due to environmental conditions in Canada, freeze-thaw cycles, road salt and moisture are serving to accelerate cracking and surface deterioration of concrete bridges.
As the immense bridge was built, the neighborhood of Delray lost residents and landmarks.
Structural health monitoring is a proactive and technology-driven approach to safeguarding ageing infrastructure.
If an engineer makes an improper assumption while designing something, sometimes the consequences are fatal. An engineering professor explains how to reduce risk.
Bridges are not just engineering projects, they are lifelines.
The Millau Viaduct just turned 20, but passed its carbon break-even point some years ago.
A civil engineer explains why roadways and rails warp and crack in the heat − and points to some innovative ways to keep the US transportation system healthy as long as possible.
Underwater construction is a complex and difficult task, but engineers have developed several ways to build underwater … mostly by not building underwater at all.
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.
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.
Under normal circumstances the Crimean Bridge would be shut for a long time – but circumstances are far from normal.
A heat wave that pushed California’s power grid to the limit, and the water system failure in Jackson, Mississippi, are just two examples.
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Associate Professor, Civil Engineering, Monash University
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