A new finding in the deadly Surfside condo collapse that killed 98 people shows the building began to experience structural ...

During lifting operations, the boom of large-tonnage all-terrain cranes bears quasi-static loads imposed by the structure weight and wind forces, and alternating cyclic loads caused by the departure, ...

Five Years After Surfside, New Federal Findings Confirm What Structural Intelligence Could Have Prevented ...

The turbulent air above a wildfire is punishing to aircraft structures. The excessive and frequent loads place an inordinate number of loading cycles on an aircraft, leading to accelerated crack ...

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 ...

Incident overview At 11.15am on 5 October 2023, a Cagatay CGT-50 unmanned aircraft was conducting a demonstration flight at Radnor Range, Powys. Weighed to its maximum takeoff weight of 55kg, the ...

With the growing demand for resilient, efficient, and low carbon infrastructure, increasing attention has been directed toward novel materials and ...

In failure analysis the problem is not lack of data but that most of it never reaches the engineers who need it most.

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 ...