{"id":47071,"date":"2024-04-08T16:05:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T20:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47071"},"modified":"2024-04-08T16:05:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T20:05:04","slug":"civil-engineering-experts-inform-public-after-key-bridge-collapse","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/news\/civil-engineering-experts-inform-public-after-key-bridge-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Engineering Experts Inform Public after Key Bridge Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>As the nation woke up to news of the Baltimore Key Bridge disaster on March 26, Hopkins Civil Engineers<\/span><span>\u00a0offered their insight into the collapse, rescue, and recovery efforts through local, national, and international media outlets.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Structural engineer<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/faculty\/benjamin-schafer\/\">Benjamin Schafer<\/a>, Willard and Lillian Hackerman Professor of<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/case\/\">Civil and Systems Engineering<\/a>, shared his expertise with<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/francis-scott-key-bridge-collapse-engineering\/\">Scientific American,<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/26\/us\/bridge-collapse-repairs.html\">New York Times<\/a>,<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2024\/03\/26\/how-key-bridge-collapsed-baltimore\/\">Washington Post<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/2024\/03\/26\/key-bridge-collapses-into-patapsco\/\">Baltimore Sun,<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/francis-scott-key-bridge-baltimore-condition-container-ship-what-we-know-how-collapse-happened\/\">CBS News<\/a>,<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/03\/27\/1241116147\/an-engineers-take-on-the-baltimore-bridge-collapse-after-it-was-hit-by-a-cargo-s\">NPR\u2019s Morning Edition<\/a>, and many other outlets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at the size of the ships from the 1970s, when the bridge was built, to now, it\u2019s radically changed\u2026There are going to be lessons learned on how we manage our bridge support structures with respect to protecting it from shipping traffic.\u201d\u2014Benjamin Schafer in Scientific American.<\/p>\n<p>Associate Teaching Professor and<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ep.jhu.edu\/programs\/civil-engineering\/?utm_source=wse_main&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=wse_referral&amp;utm_content=\/news\/national-media-consult-hopkins-engineers-in-key-bridge-coverage\/\">EP Civil Engineering<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>Program Chair<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/faculty\/rachel-sangree\/\">Rachel Sangree,<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>an expert in structural engineering and historic structures, offered her insights to<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/03\/26\/1241022473\/questions-arise-amid-the-collapse-of-the-key-bridge-in-baltimore\">NPR\u2019s All Things Considered<\/a>,<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-03-26\/why-baltimore-s-francis-scott-key-bridge-collapsed\">Bloomberg CityLab<\/a>,<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebaltimorebanner.com\/community\/transportation\/baltimore-key-bridge-design-engineering-MZ6H4HUQOJGKRES3AYKGJZEXNI\/\">Baltimore Banner<\/a>, and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat design enables us to span longer distances with less material\u2026But what it means is that when one of the piers was hit, it didn\u2019t only affect two spans,\u201d she told Bloomberg City Lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-47071","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-department-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Civil Engineering Experts Inform Public after Key Bridge Collapse - Department of Civil &amp; 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