"It's concerning, only if we don't do anything about it." That's how a Johns Hopkins engineer characterized a study that ...

INTERACTIVE TIMELINE: A look back at the Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore Sign up for our Newsletters Michael Shields, an ...

After the Key Bridge collapsed, a colleague of Michael Shields emailed him asking what he thought the chances of it happening actually were and what the chances were of it happening elsewhere. Shields ...

Was it an aberration? We found it's really not," said Michael Shields, a Johns Hopkins engineer specializing in risk assessment and lead investigator of the National Science Foundation–supported study ...

Michael Shields, a Johns Hopkins University engineering professor, got an email last March after a supersize container ship hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge and it tumbled into Baltimore Harbor about ...

From one spanning the San Francisco Bay to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge here in Maryland, structures are much more prone to ship strikes than previously thought.

Nearly one year after the cargo ship Dali collided with Baltimore’s Key Bridge, experts at Johns Hopkins University are warning ships are “highly likely” to strike major bridges in the U.S., with the ...

() – An ominous report identifies 20 bridges nationwide at serious risk of ship collisions, potentially resulting in a collapse like the one that brought down the Francis ...