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

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par 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,…

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