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 ...

It's too early to say what happened to the sightseeing helicopter that crashed into the Hudson River in New York City, killing all six people on board, but aviation experts said a failure may have ...

Learn to address the likelihood of structural failure. Perform risk analysis associated with environmental loads to structures under static and dynamic loadings. Master the basics of performance-based ...

June 24, 2022, marked the one-year anniversary of the Champlain Towers South collapse—a 12-story, 136-unit condominium building in Surfside, Florida—tragically killing 98 people in what was the single ...

OXFORD, Miss. — There is no evidence that structural failures caused a March airplane crash in north Mississippi that left one man dead and his son injured, according to a report published Wednesday ...

NIST investigators found that the Champlain Towers South collapse likely began after a failure in a pool deck slab-column connection.

The architect of the Florida condo building that collapsed last month — killing at least 97 people — was suspended for “gross incompetency” years earlier over other structural failures, according to a ...

In a world where some scenarios seem too optimistic while others appear too grim, the truth is that anything is possible, as regularly demonstrated by Alpha Structural, Inc., a California-based firm ...

Fatigue failure is a common challenge in machine design. For engineers and designers alike, addressing fatigue failure is key to ensuring the integrity of structures and components throughout the ...

NPR's Leila Fadel asks structural engineer and University of Central Florida professor Necati Catbas about the building collapse in Surfside, Fla. Crews are continuing to work at the site of the ...