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News on Failure
40 years after Kelly Barnes dam failure
On this day in 1977, a small embankment dam located above Toccoa Falls Bible College in Georgia failed, releasing a wall of water that killed 39 people. This dam failure along with several others in t...
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Structures that didn’t cope with Hurricane Harvey
It was the fiercest hurricane to hit the U.S. in more than a decade spun, making landfall in Texas. Harvey developed from a tropical wave to a Category 4 storm, coming ashore on August 25th and c...
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The Millennium tower of San Francisco is being sunk!
The Millennium Tower is a high-rise luxurious building and a landmark of San Francisco. The impressive structure stands out and is the tallest residential building in San Francisco, but recent...
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Video: Epic Demolition Failure
- Oct, 13, 2015
- News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- Glasgow, Scotland
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
Six buildings in Glasgow were to be demolished, but something went wrong and two of them were left standing! Six buildings in Glasgow were to be demolished, but something went wrong and two of them...
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