Engineering failures supply a substantial amount to discuss, but also of interest are those quirky details of why something was designed a certain way. <BR><BR>An ...

The field of engineering evolves daily. The marvels of engineering far outweigh the failures/disasters. These failures and/or disasters result when engineers and designers push boundaries by building ...

Insight into Hurricane Katrina told by those who lived through it. How systemic failures from local and national government agencies helped throw the disaster into overdrive. How responses to national ...

An interim report from the Association of State Dam Safety Officials reports that a clear factor in the failures of two dams built in the 1920s was static liquefaction (flow) instability of saturated, ...

Nicknamed "Galloping Gertie" for its tendency to bend and undulate, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge had just opened to traffic on July 1, 1940. In a now infamous failure, in the face of moderate winds the ...

Future engineers need a greater understanding of past failures — and how to avoid repeating them — a Louisiana-based nonprofit said to mark Tuesday’s 18th anniversary of the deadly, catastrophic levee ...

FARGO — Flood disasters are almost invariably a combination of a natural "act of God" and an engineering failure. On May 31, 1889, an 11-inch rain following an already wet spring led to the ...

The collapse of the Arecibo Observatory in 2020 resulted from a confluence of factors, including Hurricane Maria's damage, an unprecedented engineering failure involving spelter sockets, and a failure ...

In large enterprises, hundreds or even thousands of engineering teams are working in parallel. Each team owns a specific ...