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Extreme heat forced the metal of the Third Avenue Bridge linking Manhattan and the Bronx to expand and become stuck for several hours Monday afternoon — a phenomenon that increasingly threatens to ...

Roads are bending out of shape as temperatures rise. But they can be reengineered to keep the wheels turningTayfun Coskun/Andalou/picture alliance The extreme weather marking ten consecutive years of ...

“It’s getting so hot that the pieces that hold the concrete and steel, those bridges can literally fall apart like Tinkertoys.” PAUL CHINOWSKY, a professor of civil engineering at the University of ...

A container ship colliding into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore is drawing attention to potential vulnerabilities among some of America’s more than 600,000 bridges. The Key Bridge stood for ...

Since 1987, MCEER, formerly the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER) and the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research ( NCEER), has produced over 600 ...

Before record rainfall in July of 2018, the Misasa Railroad Bridge spanned a small river some nine miles inland from Japan’s western coast. Unprecedented flooding collapsed the bridge, an ...