{"id":3921768,"date":"2025-09-07T13:03:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T18:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/hidden-mechanisms-that-prevent-bridge-collapse-under-catastrophic-events-uncovered\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T13:03:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T18:03:20","slug":"hidden-mechanisms-that-prevent-bridge-collapse-under-catastrophic-events-uncovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/hidden-mechanisms-that-prevent-bridge-collapse-under-catastrophic-events-uncovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden mechanisms that prevent bridge collapse under catastrophic events uncovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>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.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-09-hidden-mechanisms-bridge-collapse-catastrophic.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/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 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3921768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3921768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3921768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3921768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3921768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}