The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald still hits close to home in Wisconsin. Half a century later, the legacy lives on through ...

Designed for fast, coastal missions, the Littoral Combat Ship was meant to be the “Swiss Army knife” of the U.S. Navy. But today, the LCS program is dealing with serious issues—from structural ...

When it launched from the Great Lakes Engineering Works in River Rouge, Michigan, in 1958, the Edmund Fitzgerald was the largest ship in the Great Lakes. For roughly a year, the 729-foot vessel was ...

On a stormy night in November 1975, a massive freighter vanished beneath the waves of the Great Lakes - taking all 29 crew ...

Numerical simulations have become integral to modern ship structural analysis and collision dynamics, providing invaluable insights into the complex interplay between structural integrity, material ...

Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge was gone in a flash early Tuesday after a cargo ship collided with one of its pillars, snapping the structure into pieces and sending it tumbling into the water ...

Not all of ancient Rome’s structures stood the test of time. A few modern structures haven’t either. These are the deadliest failures of buildings, bridges, dams and other structures. Earlier this ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. The cargo ship collision that destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in ...