{"id":186404,"date":"2024-03-30T14:24:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T19:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/how-can-bridges-be-protected-from-ship-collisions-a-civil-engineer-explains"},"modified":"2024-03-30T14:24:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T19:24:10","slug":"how-can-bridges-be-protected-from-ship-collisions-a-civil-engineer-explains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/how-can-bridges-be-protected-from-ship-collisions-a-civil-engineer-explains","title":{"rendered":"How can bridges be protected from ship collisions? A civil engineer explains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-can-bridges-be-protected-from-ship-collisions-a-civil-engineer-explains2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an interview, University of Michigan civil engineer <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&user=764wTXMAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate\">Sherif El-Tawil<\/a> explained how often ships collide with bridges, what can be done to protect bridges from collisions, and how a similar disaster in Florida in 1980 \u2013 just three years after the Key bridge opened \u2013 changed the way bridges are built.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is not the first time a ship has taken out a bridge. What\u2019s the history of ship-bridge collisions?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is an extremely rare event. To my knowledge, there are about 40 or so recorded events in the past 65 years that involved similar type of damage to a bridge caused by a ship. So they seem to occur on average about once every one and a half to two years around the world. When you consider that there are millions of bridges around the world \u2013 and most of them cross waterways \u2013 you can imagine how rare this is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview, University of Michigan civil engineer Sherif El-Tawil explained how often ships collide with bridges, what can be done to protect bridges from collisions, and how a similar disaster in Florida in 1980 \u2013 just three years after the Key bridge opened \u2013 changed the way bridges are built. This is not the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}