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).

The Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers recently announced the launch of a U.S. version of the U.K.’s Confidential Reporting on Structural Safety program. SEI ...

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

A huge shipping vessel that collided with a major bridge in Baltimore has left numerous people missing and could cause significant economic and social disruption, experts say. Many questions remain ...

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 ...

Learn about the crane collapse train incident in Sikhiu district and the engineering investigations that followed.

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 ...