infrastructure
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Report: Engineer Told Officials Not To Worry About Crack In Miami Bridge Just Hours Before Collapse
The death toll from the collapse of a pedestrian bridge over a road at Miami’s Florida International University on March 15th has risen to at least six, with the university admitting on Saturday that one of the project engineers had waved off concerns over a crack just hours before.
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Next Up, Tesla Will Take On 7-Eleven
Back in 2013, the sky was the limit for Tesla and Elon Musk was promising a low-cost 90-second battery swap at charging stations in the future. Since then, reality has set in and those plans seem to be on hold. What’s the next best solution for those long charging times? Maybe put your feet up…
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Almost 56,000 US Bridges Deemed ‘Structurally Deficient’ And It’s Fine, Everything Is Fine
Image credit: Godzilla How many times have you driven across a bridge and thought, “What are the chances that this just collapsed under me?” And then you gave yourself a shake and then thought, “Nah! It’s probably structurally sound!” Well, maybe. Maaaaybe.
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New Analysis Confirms Why The Skagit River Bridge Collapsed
In May 2013, a bridge spanning the Skagit River along Interstate 5 in Washington state catastrophically collapsed, after an oversized trailer clipped one of the bridge’s cross beams. A new analysis by engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign confirms the many factors that contributed to the collapse, and offers recommendations for how…