Their research comes as the National Transportation Safety Board has encouraged the nation’s bridge owners to act swiftly in protecting their assets from a similar fate.
A view April 5, 2024, from Riviera Beach of the Francis Scott Key Bridge wreckage with removal underway after the Singapore-flagged container ship Dali struck one of the supports. such an event.Texas bridge collision may have spilled up to 2,000 gallons of oil
But other bridges could be at risk. Container ships have continued to grow in recent decades and massive vessels, often weighing more than 100,000 tons, frequently transit under bridges on their way to ports in America, like the thousands of trips ships made annually under the Key Bridge. “We need to know now, not five or 10 years from now, whether there is an outsize risk to bridges across the country so that critical investments — which will take years — can begin immediately if they are needed,” Michael Shields, the Hopkins engineer leading the team, said in a statement. “The Key Bridge collapse was a wake-up call.”
Last week, experts met in College Park for a roundtable hosted by the American Society of Civil Engineers and the University of Maryland’s engineering department. Some suggested that the nation’s bridge code could be revised because of the Key Bridge collapse. The Hopkins study could be relevant to any potential changes considered.
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