Johns Hopkins team assessing nation's bridges after deadly Baltimore collapse

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Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore are assessing the country’s bridges after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The team includes students and faculty. They hope to determine whether other structures are similarly vulnerable.

Work continues to remove the wreckage of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, in Baltimore, Monday, May 20, 2024. Tugboats escort the container ship Dali after it was refloated in Baltimore, Monday, May 20, 2024. The container ship that caused the deadly collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge was refloated Monday and has begun slowly moving back to port. Tugboats escort the cargo ship Dali after it was refloated in Baltimore, Monday, May 20, 2024.

The steel span crumbled in an instant after the container ship Dali lost power and crashed into one of its supporting columns shortly after leaving Baltimore’s port on March 26. Six members of a“Clearly the risk to the Key Bridge was very different in 2024 than it was in 1977 when the bridge opened,” Shields said. “But we don’t currently understand that risk.”Gov.

“Between the exponential growth of mega freight ships and the surge in global shipping traffic, many of our bridges simply weren’t built to withstand the pressures of today’s maritime landscape,” said team member Rachel Sangree, a structural engineer and former bridge inspector.that the Dali sailed right past a protective concrete piling — also known as a dolphin — before bringing down the bridge.

 

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