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 ...

Researchers at National Taiwan University have developed bioinspired composites that mimic bone and bamboo structures to ...

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 ...

A review of state inspection reports of a critical Rhode Island bridge that was partially shut down over safety concerns, resulting in major traffic headaches, led authorities to believe that ...

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 ...

Two aging water-control structures on the lower Withlacoochee River are showing “significant deterioration” and signs of potential failure, according to 2025 inspection reports obtained through a Free ...

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 ...