The Tacoma Narrows Bridge disaster serves as a powerful lesson in engineering and aerodynamics. The collapse on November 7, 1940, stands as one of the most dramatic and instructive engineering ...

BALTIMORE -- The tragic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge has placed a spotlight on the durability of bridge structures. Data shows the Bay Bridge is one of more than 17 thousand bridges in the ...

Hawaii had two 100-year storms in three weeks. Now engineers are reckoning with infrastructure built for a climate that no ...

NPR's Debbie Elliott asks engineering professor Sebastian Bryson what officials will be considering as they plan to rebuild the collapsed bridge in Baltimore. Maryland is getting $60 million in ...

He wrote extensively about the design of buildings and bridges and how they failed. He also examined the history of commonplace objects like the pencil. By Richard Sandomir Henry Petroski, who ...