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Major U.S. bridges at high risk of being struck by ships
Was it an aberration? We found it's really not," said Michael Shields, a Johns Hopkins engineer specializing in risk assessment and lead investigator of the National Science Foundation–supported study ...
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New research, report question whether bridge collapse was preventable
INTERACTIVE TIMELINE: A look back at the Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore Sign up for our Newsletters Michael Shields, an ...
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Johns Hopkins engineers find concerning risk of ship collision for many U.S. bridges
"It's concerning, only if we don't do anything about it." That's how a Johns Hopkins engineer characterized a study that ...
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Dozens of US bridges are at risk of vessel strikes, new reports show
After the Key Bridge collapsed, a colleague of Michael Shields emailed him asking what he thought the chances of it happening actually were and what the chances were of it happening elsewhere. Shields ...
Report: Several crucial bridges at ‘high risk’ for ship collisions
() – An ominous report identifies 20 bridges nationwide at serious risk of ship collisions, potentially resulting in a collapse like the one that brought down the Francis ...
Bridge safety under scrutiny a year after Baltimore bridge collapse
Nearly one year after the cargo ship Dali collided with Baltimore’s Key Bridge, experts at Johns Hopkins University are warning ships are “highly likely” to strike major bridges in the U.S., with the ...
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Ships are ‘highly likely’ to collide with U.S. bridges, Hopkins research finds
From one spanning the San Francisco Bay to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge here in Maryland, structures are much more prone to ship strikes than previously thought.