The turbulent air above a wildfire is punishing to aircraft structures. The excessive and frequent loads place an inordinate number of loading cycles on an aircraft, leading to accelerated crack ...

An engineering report regarding the structural integrity of Hotel Marysville after Saturday night’s massive fire that consumed much of the building was released late Wednesday with the recommendation ...

As energy storage systems continue to grow in scale, discussions around safety are becoming increasingly pragmatic. Rather than simply asking whether a system is certified, customers are now raising a ...

PUTRAJAYA - The failure and in-flight separation of structural parts due to excessive operational stresses on the aircraft's weakened composite materials has been identified as the primary cause of ...

The probable cause of the American Airlines Flight 587 crash on Nov. 12, 2001, was "in-flight separation of the vertical stabilizer as a result of the loads beyond ultimate design that were created by ...