Ben Garvin/Pioneer Press The I-35W freeway bridge spanning the Mississippi River at Minneapolis collapsed Aug. 1, 2007, ... Fiber-optic sensors could head off bridge failures.

WILLISTON, Vt. – Steve Arms started by designing sensors that could be arthroscopically implanted to measure strain on knee ligaments. These days, Arms and his company, MicroStrain Inc., are ...

Describe the sensors you created that could deal with this problem. We created easy-to-install, low-cost wireless sensors. Once installed, they're expected to work for at least 10 years with ...

Nizar Lajnef, MSU associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, tells StateTech that the researchers plan to deploy the first new wave of sensors on the bridge in July. According to the ...

Researchers at Clarkson University, NY, have developed wireless bridge sensors which work without batteries. Instead, they are powered by the vibrations caused by passing traffic.

Take a drive over any of the seven big bridges that cross the lower Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, and you're typically in for a scenic view ...

The new bridge, which will stretch 8,800 feet over the Port of Long Beach, is being built with about 75 seismic sensors that will measure the forces imparted on the span when one of several nearby ...

A new Iowa bridge was built with more than 100 damage detection sensors.The bridge is on Highway 65 in Iowa Falls.Iowa State University researchers partnered with the Iowa Department of ...

A replacement bridge under construction at the nation's second-busiest port isn't just a crucial route for cargo trucks and Southern California commuters — it's a concrete-and-steel science ...

Rhode Island Department of Transportation said Waterfront Drive will be restricted to alternating one-way traffic from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday, March 17 and 18. The sensors are part ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. – A replacement bridge under construction at the nation’s second-busiest port isn’t just a crucial route for cargo trucks and Southern California commuters – it’s a ...