{"id":221538,"date":"2025-09-08T01:02:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T06:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/hidden-mechanisms-that-prevent-bridge-collapse-under-catastrophic-events-uncovered"},"modified":"2025-09-08T01:02:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T06:02:41","slug":"hidden-mechanisms-that-prevent-bridge-collapse-under-catastrophic-events-uncovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/hidden-mechanisms-that-prevent-bridge-collapse-under-catastrophic-events-uncovered","title":{"rendered":"Hidden mechanisms that prevent bridge collapse under catastrophic events uncovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hidden-mechanisms-that-prevent-bridge-collapse-under-catastrophic-events-uncovered2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team from the Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Val\u00e8ncia (UPV) and the University of Vigo (UVigo) has just published in Nature the results of a study in which they have uncovered why bridges\u2014specifically steel truss bridges\u2014do not collapse when affected by a catastrophic event such as an impact or an earthquake. And their conclusions are similar to the behavior of spider webs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team from the Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Val\u00e8ncia (UPV) and the University of Vigo (UVigo) has just published in Nature the results of a study in which they have uncovered why bridges\u2014specifically steel truss bridges\u2014do not collapse when affected by a catastrophic event such as an impact or an earthquake. And their conclusions are similar [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221538","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}