"A bridge shouldn't just fall down," Senator Amy Klobuchar said after the August 1, 2007, collapse of the Minneapolis I-35W eight-lane steel truss bridge, which

After his car took a hundred-foot nosedive during the collapse of the 35W bridge in Minneapolis, Garret Ebling was left with serious physical and emotional inju

Exploring the university's role in understanding how disasters impact communities.

A comprehensive overview of the shocking state of our nation's infrastructure and what must be done to fix it

Author Thomas Fisher introduces the idea of fracture-critical design and provides many solutions for how we can design to avoid major disasters.