Operator killed after tower crane collapses at construction site for public housing project on Tai Wo Hau Road Industry ...

Takeoff remains the moment when a long-serving freighter asks the most of its structure. On tri-jets descended from the DC-10 ...

A trade unionist on Friday called for a review of guidelines covering tower crane inspections with a view towards ...

The Terminator series is any metallurgist’s dream. Across all six films, including two good ones, futuristic human-killing robots showcase all the sci-fi possibilities of metal — both resistant ...

Solid-state lithium batteries fail for the same reason over-bent paperclips snap – metal fatigue in the anode itself, according to a new study. The findings, which show that this fatigue follows ...

Engineers have identified a fundamental deformation mechanism that can be leveraged to greatly enhance the fatigue properties of metals, opening the door to a new strategy for designing ...

A spate of news stories about structural deficiencies in bridges is leading engineers to examine an age-old culprit: metal fatigue. Discussions of fatigue have gained momentum in the wake of the ...

Modern bridges are engineered to withstand metal fatigue. But in the 1960s, when the collapsed Interstate-35 bridge in Minneapolis was built, engineers didn't realize how much traffic bridges would ...

DALLAS - Federal investigators say metal fatigue caused a hole to rip open in the roof of a Southwest Airlines jet as it cruised at 35,000 feet last year. The National Transportation Safety Board says ...