The Nairobi City County Government claims the collapse of a building in Karen was caused by structural failure linked to poor ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is continuing to help engineers learn from failures through the development of its Disaster and Failure Events Data Repository (ENR 4/25/11 p. 14).

For structural engineer Glenn Bell, the collapse on July 17, 1981, of a pedestrian bridge inside the Hyatt Regency Kansas City Hotel—which killed 114 people and injured more than 200—stands out as a ...

Rochester Institute of Technology engineering technology students are using the tragedies of the past to help prevent tragedies in the future. Students in professor Abi Aghayere’s structural analysis ...

Last week’s deadly collapse of a 12-story oceanfront condominium in a small town on the same barrier island as Miami Beach, Fla., is raising concerns among structural engineers and designers about how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A huge shipping vessel that collided with a major bridge in Baltimore has left numerous people missing and could cause significant ...

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 ...