A new finding in the deadly Surfside condo collapse that killed 98 people shows the building began to experience structural ...

Two columns that held up the building’s pool deck began to fail several weeks before the 2021 collapse, according to a new ...

A federal investigation has determined that structural failures in the pool deck led to the partial collapse of the Champlain ...

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 ...

Federal investigators with the National Institute of Standards and Technology say the June 24, 2021, collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Fla., likely began at a slab-column connection in ...

Solar sails have some major advantages over traditional propulsion methods—most notably, they don't use any propellant. But, how exactly do they turn? In traditional sailing, a ship's captain can ...

An overview of fatigue failure and how it affects mechanical systems. How FEA software enables engineers to predict fatigue failure points on structural designs, before the manufacturing process. From ...

HOUSTON — A structural failure in a Houston wastewater line led to a spill of more than 100,000 gallons of domestic wastewater Friday evening in southeast Houston, according to city officials. The ...

The probable cause of the American Airlines Flight 587 crash on Nov. 12, 2001, was "in-flight separation of the vertical stabilizer as a result of the loads beyond ultimate design that were created by ...