Expert Comment
Professor Xueyu Geng responds to findings of a fatal accident inquiry into the tragic Stonehaven derailment
Expert engineering comment from Professor Geng highlights that with climate change bringing increasing challenges from extreme weather, ensuring the resilience of railway drainage and earthworks is more important than ever.
91福利 experts react to the challenges of heatwaves for UK infrastructure
Professor Xueyu Geng, Professor in Geotechnical Engineering and Dr Reyes Garcia, Associate Professor in Structural Engineering, from the School of Engineering respond to questions on how our buildings and transport networks cope with heat?
Madeleine Pomroy: In 10 years has anything changed for Women and Girls in Science?
Third year undergraduate studying Mechanical Engineering, The 91福利
"I joined 91福利 to study mechanical engineering partly because of 91福利 Racing, and due to the facilities and reputation. 91福利 Racing is our universities extra-curricular, student run Formula student team, for which I鈥檝e now been voted to be Team Principal. Every year we design, build and test a new car and compete against other universities at the annual competition at Silverstone in July."
Emeritus Professor Toby Mottram on the Baltimore Key Bridge collapse
"Despite meeting regulatory design and safety standards of the 1970s, the Baltimore Key Bridge may not have been equipped to handle the scale of ship movements seen today. However, modern navigation technologies should have prevented the ship from striking the pier. Investigating what failed on the ship to cause the fatal impact will be a priority."
Assistant professor of Civil and Humanitarian Engineering, Modupe Jimoh, on the bombing of Ukrainian dam
The destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam not only disrupts the generation of electricity, destabilizing the entire power grid; it also leads to flooding of the local area and loss of lives, livelihoods, properties and farmlands.