Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After the 116,851-ton container ship Dali slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, collapsing it into the Patapsco River, an alarming fact became widely ...

The Francis Scott Key Bridge did not have an obvious fender system, or protective barriers, to redirect or prevent a ship from crashing into the bridge piers. Engineers point out that some other ...

Keywords: Steel plate shear walls (SPSW). Multi-hazard designs. Seismic excitation. Damage. Vehicle collisions. Tsunamis. Storm surges. Blast loads. Nonlinear finite ...

Container ships continue to grow in size, so much that harbor channels are being deepened again and decks on spans like the Bayonne Bridge have been raised to accommodate them. Has the infrastructure ...

NEW YORK-- It has been just over a week since the devastating Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore. The incident had us wondering if other bridges are strong enough to take that kind of hit. CBS New York ...

BALTIMORE — The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in March launched national probes into reinforcing the country’s infrastructure, but one need not look far to find an essential span recently in need ...

Laura Geller is a multi-award-winning investigative journalist in the Crime and Public Safety Beat. She joined the CBS News Innovation Lab as a national investigative producer in September 2023. In ...

Keywords: Blast performance. Concrete filled steel tube (CFST) columns. Multihazard assessments. Bridges. Piers. Structural collapse. Seismically-resistant designs. Blast loads. Terrorism. Blast ...

Engineers and bridge designers were raising questions Tuesday about structural safety in the wake of a catastrophic collapse overnight of the Key Bridge. A cargo container struck one of the bridge’s ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WBFF) — The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said that the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge was preventable on Tuesday, while discussing the findings that caused a ...