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Baltimore Key Bridge: how a domino effect brought it down in seconds

By Dr Mohamed Shaheen, Lecturer in Structural Engineering, Loughborough University
The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on 26 March was a shocking and tragic event. Six people remain unaccounted for in the disaster, which saw the world’s third largest continuous truss bridge fall into the Patapsco river.

The cause was Singapore-flagged container ship, the Dali, which veered off course, colliding with one of the bridge’s supports,…The Conversation


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