University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Professor of Labor History Colin Davis, Ph.D., says this week’s mining disaster in West Virginia is reminiscent of one of the nation’s most deadly mining accidents that occurred in 1907.
Drexel University engineers are researching methods to establish the safe load capacity of aging concrete bridges in West Virginia.
A Clarkson University professor, operating under a state-funded research grant, has developed a system that allows for remote monitoring of bridges using a dense network of wireless sensors. The work is part of an effort to increase the way state and county departments of transportation in New York State keep track of its bridge inventory.
A Sandia team is developing and evaluating networks of small, permanently mounted sensors that could soon check continuously for the formation of structural defects in I-beams and other critical structural supports of bridges and highway overpasses, giving structural engineers a better chance of heading off catastrophic failures.
A new "skin" for bridges, buildings and airplanes could be a sixth sense for inspectors looking for cracks and corrosion that could lead to a catastrophic failure like the recent Minneapolis bridge collapse.
PNNL civil infrastructure experts are available to reporters to discuss the development and deployment of sensor technology for evaluating material degradation associated with failure in steel, concrete, composite and other structures.
Tipsheet on bridge structure and safety.
The bridge collapse in Minneapolis this week raises fears about personal safety in most of us, especially those who have suffered past traumas or from personal safety phobias, according to a University at Buffalo expert on post-traumatic stress disorder.
Any one of hundreds of components could have led to the collapse of the I-35 bridge in Minneapolis, expert says.
Understand your adversaries and defend against them -- Critical infrastructure defenders can learn from government "red teams" and intelligence professionals how to better protect their systems by attending a three-day conference in Washington, D.C., Aug. 28-30, hosted by Sandia National Laboratories' Information Design Assurance Red Team (IDART) at the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel.
Bearing such freight as consumer goods, agricultural products and manufacturing shipments, thousands of semi trucks hurtle daily through the Midwest on the region's increasingly crowded web of highways and freeways.
Recent terrorist threats and a catastrophic accident have put bridges in the spotlight and raised questions concerning their safety. University of Arkansas researchers have been trying to find the answers for some well-traveled bridges.
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