As the one-year anniversary approaches of the shocking collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which tumbled into the Patapsco River in the early morning hours of March 26, 2024, after it was struck by the Dali cargo ship, Johns Hopkins has released separate studies on the disaster.

Mar 25, 2025 · As the one-year anniversary approaches of the shocking collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which tumbled into the Patapsco River in the early morning hours of March 26, 2024, after it...

Mar 25, 2025 · BALTIMORE — It was a two-sentence email, hastily fired off the morning after the Key Bridge collapsed from one structural engineer to another, that started off an 11-month long inquiry. Johns Hopkins Civil Engineer Michael Shields and his team of students and fellow professors wanted to know: was the collapse of the Key Bridge a freak ...

Mar 25, 2025 · Michael Shields, an associate professor of civil and systems engineering at Johns Hopkins University, found that the Key Bridge was one of the top 10 most vulnerable bridges in the country at the ...

Mar 23, 2025 · After the collapse of the Key Bridge on March 26, 2024, Johns Hopkins University researchers aimed to determine the chances of a large ship hitting the country's most significant bridges.

Mar 24, 2025 · A year ago, Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed after a direct hit by a massive container ship.Believing chances were high for another such incident, and that risk to the Key Bridge amid modern shipping traffic had been underestimated, Johns Hopkins engineers immediately launched a risk assessment for U.S. bridges.

Mar 24, 2025 · The new Key Bridge, for example, will have more robust pier protection and will have a longer main span — at least 1,600 feet — than the old one. The longer that span, the farther apart piers are from the shipping channel. The Hopkins findings might surprise many who consider the Key Bridge collapse to have been a standalone event.

Mar 24, 2025 · Hopkins on Monday released preliminary findings from their analysis, nearly one year after the Dali cargo ship hit Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in the early morning hours of March 26, 2024, causing the bridge to collapse.

15 hours ago · The 21st Century Cities Initiative at Johns Hopkins University surveyed about 1,500 people in Baltimore City and county about the impact of the March 26, 2024, Key Bridge collapse and prospects for rebuilding the bridge. The Key Bridge was destroyed when a container ship rammed a support column, severing Interstate 695 crossing over the ...

Mar 24, 2025 · MARYLAND (WBFF) — New analysis released Monday by Johns Hopkins University researchers says that ships are highly likely to collide with major bridges across the United States, with the...