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Brumadinho dam disaster
The Brumadinho dam disaster was the January 2019 collapse of a Vale iron ore tailings dam in Minas Gerais, Brazil, killing 272 people and polluting the Paraopeba River.
Brusio spiral viaduct
The Brusio spiral viaduct is a nine-arch stone railway viaduct of 1908 on the Bernina line in Switzerland, where the track loops 360° over itself.
BS 5400
BS 5400 is a multi-part British Standard, Steel, concrete and composite bridges, setting codes of practice for bridge design, loads, materials, bearings, and fatigue in the UK.
BS 5950
BS 5950 is a multi-part British Standard, Structural use of steelwork in building, covering design, construction, and fire protection of steel structures; withdrawn in 2010 for Eurocode 3.
BS 8110
BS 8110, titled Structural use of concrete, was a British Standard code of practice for designing reinforced and prestressed concrete structures, used from 1985 until 2010.
Buckingham Canal
The Buckingham Canal is a 448 km irrigation and navigation canal in southeastern India, running along the Coromandel Coast from Andhra Pradesh to Tamil Nadu through Chennai, begun in 1806.
Buckling-restrained brace
A buckling-restrained brace (BRB) is a steel bracing member for earthquake-resistant structures that dissipates earthquake energy by yielding in tension and compression without buckling, first applied in Japan in 1989.
Budapest water-supply aqueducts
The Budapest water-supply aqueducts are the wells, galleries, tunnels, and pumping stations built from the 1850s to 1904, using Danube bank filtration that still supplies the city's drinking water.
Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority
The Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority is a binational public corporation that owns and operates the Peace Bridge between Buffalo, New York, and Fort Erie, Ontario.
Buffeting (wind engineering)
Buffeting in wind engineering is the along-wind vibration of a structure caused by turbulent wind gusts, an unsteady loading that grows with wind speed rather than a self-excited instability.
Buford Dam
Buford Dam is a 192-foot earthfill dam on the Chattahoochee River in northern Georgia, built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and completed in 1956.
Builders of the ancient Nile–Red Sea canal
The builders of the ancient Nile–Red Sea canal were Necho II, Darius I, Ptolemy II, Trajan, and Amr ibn al-As, who dug and redug it over a millennium.
Built Environment Coalition
The Built Environment Coalition is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2011 by civil engineer E. Sarah Slaughter to improve sustainability and disaster resiliency of the built environment.
Bulk water conveyance
Bulk water conveyance moves large volumes of water through pressurized trunk mains and inter-city pipelines, from sources or treatment works to storage, with no service connections.
Burns & McDonnell
Burns & McDonnell is an American engineering and construction firm headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. Founded in 1898, it has been 100 percent employee-owned since 1986.
Burr arch truss
The Burr arch truss, also called the Burr truss, is a wooden bridge form patented by Theodore Burr in 1817, used chiefly for American covered bridges.
Burrinjuck Dam
Burrinjuck Dam, forming Lake Burrinjuck, is a major dam on the Murrumbidgee River in New South Wales, Australia, and the main storage for the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area.
Butterley Tunnel
Butterley Tunnel is a disused canal tunnel on the Cromford Canal in Derbyshire, England, built in the early 1790s and closed permanently by mining-subsidence collapses in 1900.
Buttress dam
A buttress dam, also known as a hollow dam, is a dam in which a thin watertight wall or series of arches is supported by regularly spaced downstream buttresses.
C. Y. O'Connor
C. Y. O'Connor, born Charles Yelverton O'Connor (1843–1902), was an Irish-born civil engineer who, as Engineer-in-Chief of Western Australia, built Fremantle Harbour and the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme.
Cable arrangements and pylon forms of cable-stayed bridges
Cable arrangements and pylon forms of cable-stayed bridges cover the fan, semi-fan, and harp stay layouts and the H, A, inverted-Y, and diamond pylon shapes that carry the deck.
Cable saddle
A cable saddle is a curved steel casting at a bridge tower top or anchorage over which a main cable passes and changes direction, transferring cable tension into the tower.
Cable-stayed and extradosed bridges of the Americas, Africa, the Middle East and Oceania
A survey of notable cable-stayed and extradosed bridges in the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, and Oceania, led by Mexico's 520 m Baluarte Bicentenario Bridge.
Cable-stayed bridge
A cable-stayed bridge is a bridge whose deck is supported directly by inclined cables running from towers, dominant for spans of roughly 150 to 600 m.
Cable-stayed bridges in Europe
Cable-stayed bridges in Europe include the pioneering Strömsund Bridge of 1955 and France's Pont de Normandie, whose 856 m main span set a world record in 1995.
Cable-stayed bridges of Asia
Cable-stayed bridges of Asia surveys the region's record spans and national programs, led by China's 1,088 m Sutong Bridge, Hong Kong's Stonecutters Bridge, and Japan's 890 m Tatara Bridge.
Cable-stayed footbridge
A cable-stayed footbridge is a pedestrian or cycle bridge whose slender deck is carried by inclined stay cables running to towers, with typical spans of 30–100 meters.
Caesar's Rhine bridges
Caesar's Rhine bridges were two wooden military bridges built across the Rhine by Julius Caesar during the Gallic War, the first in 55 BC, the second in 53 BC.
Cahora Bassa Dam
The Cahora Bassa Dam is a 171-meter concrete arch dam on the Zambezi River in Tete Province, Mozambique, generating 2,075 MW and exporting power mostly to South Africa.
Cahora Bassa Dam resettlement
Cahora Bassa Dam resettlement was the forced removal of farming and fishing communities in Mozambique's lower Zambezi valley for the Cahora Bassa Dam, 1972 to 1975.