An MH-60S Knight Hawk helicopter, attached to the ‘Dragonslayers’ of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 11, conducts a vertical-replenishment with the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S.

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 ...

On June 24, 2021, a portion of Champlain Towers South, a 12-story condominium in Surfside, Florida, near Miami Beach, collapsed around 1:30 am. It was one of the most deadly structural collapses in ...

You never know.” Of course, amid the failures have been resounding successes. Alongside eTap, DoubleTap and Flight Attendant, the Universal Derailleur Hanger (UDH) is one of the AD department's more ...

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On December 1st, 2020, the unthinkable happened – the legendary Arecibo Telescope collapsed in a catastrophic failure. Once the largest radio telescope in the world, Arecibo was humanity’s ear to the ...

Engineering disasters serve as tragic but crucial learning opportunities for the advancement of safety standards and design principles. This collection of 15 catastrophic failures spans nearly 150 ...

Overreliance on technology, as seen in Facebook’s 2018 outage, can lead to reputational and operational crises. Continuity plans should include scenario testing, manual overrides and clear ...

ATLANTA — Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, a researcher at Georgia Tech has developed a simulator to understand the failures of the levees that led to widespread flooding.