civil-engineering

Penn State Altoona’s Rail Transportation Engineering program is the recipient of a U.S. National Science Foundation grant that will bolster the Research Experience for Undergraduates Site: Smart and Sustainable Infrastructure Using Rail as a Living Laboratory project.

As the technical requirements of building envelopes have evolved, fire performance has become a key criterion in the design of ventilated facades. Given this situation, analyses no longer focus solely on the individual reaction of materials, but also on the joint response of the entire building envelope under possible scenarios of external fire propagation.

More than £3bn is due to be spent on the proposed road tunnel between Kent and Essex, which is estimated to have higher costs per mile than HS2 Ministers have earmarked more than £170m extra to help build the Lower Thames Crossing road tunnel , fuelling concerns over the “spiralling” costs of one of the UK’s largest planned infrastructure projects. The proposed £11bn route under the Thames betwee…

Yuvashree NV, The Tamilnadu Dr Ambedkar Law University, Chennai ABSTRACT Engineering and architecture are professions with a significant impact on public safety, urban development, environmental sustainability and social welfare. While these professions are generally linked with innovation and progress, deviation from professional norms, ethical standards and regulatory requirements may result in…

The Neckarbogen neighborhood parking garage is Heilbronn's most modern and forward-thinking parking facility. This new multifunctional building combines parking spaces, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, car-sharing services, local energy generation, and other neighborhood services, all under one roof. A mobility station, which can be used independently of car traffic, is located in a high…

The World’s Largest Floating Dry Dock Was Towed Across the Atlantic to Bermuda in 1869 When Britain needed a solution for ship repairs in the Atlantic, engineers in the 1860s built the largest floating dry dock ever attempted, a 380-foot iron structure weighing over 8,000 tons. Constructed near Woolwich on the Thames, the dock was designed to lift 10,000-ton ironclads like HMS Warrior and withsta…

Scientific Reports, Published online: 06 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-56080-w High-fidelity CNN-based surrogate modeling for wildfire spread forecasting

The Great Pyramid of Khufu has naturally survived millennia of seismic activity due to its immense mass, broad base, low center of gravity, and a structural frequency mismatch that prevents destructive seismic wave amplification

At a Finnish sawmill, a felled tree gets sorted in seconds. The straight, fat trunk beco New! Sign up for our email newsletter on Substack.

In his mission to normalise the use of 'misfit wood', Aalto University architect and researcher Jaakko Torvinen has shown how standard, business-as-usual calculation methods can predict load-bearing capacity for organically shaped logs.

Have you ever wondered why an office, apartment building, or public space can feel too hot one day and too cold the next, even when the heating system is running? According to researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, the problem may be that most buildings rely on a surprisingly simple rule: they […] The post The simple reason your building is too hot or too cold—and how to fix …

Mining-induced deformation and failure of overlying strata may trigger roof collapse, surface subsidence, and abnormal gas emissions. To address this, this study proposes a distributed optical fiber monitoring method for large-scale rock mass deformation, leveraging the high sensitivity and distributed sensing advantages of Brillouin optical time-domain analysis (BOTDA) technology. A physical sim…

Scientific Reports, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-56509-2 Mechanical responses and probabilistic sensitivity analysis of shield tunnel segment in water-rich soft strata

Scientific Reports, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-56537-y Integrated numerical–physical modeling for optimizing riverbed dredging in Mixed Pumped-Storage Power Stations: a case study of Lianghekou project

A powerful but mostly unseen water system at work during rocket engine tests at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, underwent an upgrade in May. Crews brought the High Pressure Industrial Water Facility’s 66-million-gallon reservoir to its lowest level since construction in the 1960s by pumping out about 40 million gallons of […]

Scientific Reports, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41598-026-55948-1 A combined experimental and DEM study on the mechanical and failure characteristics of fissured sandstone under complex stress conditions

Engineers at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have unveiled a powerful new testing chamber that can recreate the extreme pressures found in the deepest parts of the world’s oceans. The new facility will help researchers and companies test underwater equipment more quickly, safely, and efficiently without needing to send it thousands of meters below the ocean […] The post How a new 30-inch pres…

Civil construction builds the roads, bridges, drains, pipes and public spaces people use each day. It keeps towns moving. It helps homes, farms and local firms stay linked. It also helps growing areas deal with more people, more trucks and heavy rain. This work is very important in Toowoomba and the Darling Downs. The area...

A clean finish on aluminium rarely comes down to the final pass in the oven.It starts earlier, in the small decisions that shape how the material behaves once heat is applied. With laser-cut aluminium, those decisions determine everything.The cut edge, the alloy, and even the way the part is handled between steps all leave their...

Understanding the sedimentation behavior of dredged slurry under shear is essential for managing disposal ponds and land reclamation. This study developed a rotating shear settling device to systematically investigate the structural evolution and sedimentation response of dredged slurry (Tianjin mud) under varying shear intensities (0–4.89 s-1) and initial water contents (157%–377%). Results reve…