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How Real-Time Bridge Monitoring Sensors Work to Detect Structural Defects

Along with flying cars and instantaneous teleportation, smart bridges, roads and subway lines that can send out warnings when they’re damaged are staples of futuristic transportation systems in science fiction. U.S.-based Sandia National Laboratories has worked with Structural Monitoring Systems, …

Typhoon Melor Hits Philippines with Fierce Winds and Flooding: AIR

A report from catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, describes Super Typhoon Melor, known locally as Nona, as having struck the Philippines on Monday, December 14, 2015, at around 3:00 UTC (11:00 a.m. local time) near Batag, Laoang, in the eastern …