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Location: Cambridge, United States
MIT civil engineers have for the first time identified what causes the most frequently used building material on earth -- concrete -- to gradually deform, decreasing its durability and shortening the lifespan of infrastructures such as bridges and...
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Location: New Orleans, United States
The failure of the New Orleans' levees after Hurricane Katrina struck the coastal city in 2005 is now labeled "the worst engineering disaster of the United States" by a professional organization that knows –– the American Society of...
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Location: Georgia Institute of Technology :: Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
THE UNITED STATES’
worst-ever chlorine gas leak killed nine people and injured 250.
Eighteen months later – despite efforts to clean and restore the textile mill
affected by the leak – 4,000 people lost their...
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