Researchers from UPV and the University of Vigo uncover the hidden mechanisms that prevent bridges from collapsing under catastrophic events (IMAGE)

Universitat Politècnica de València

Researchers from UPV and the University of Vigo uncover the hidden mechanisms that prevent bridges from collapsing under catastrophic events

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A team from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the University of Vigo (UVigo) has just published in Nature the results of a study in which they have uncovered why bridges — specifically steel truss bridges — do not collapse when affected by a catastrophic event such as an impact or an earthquake. And their conclusions are similar to the behaviour of spider webs.

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