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Fragility analysis
Fragility analysis is a probabilistic reliability method of structural and earthquake engineering that estimates the probability a structure reaches a defined damage state at a given hazard intensity.
Framing (construction)
Framing, also called frame construction, is the structural skeleton of a building: beams, studs, and walls that carry loads to the foundation, typically wood or steel.
Francis Scott Key Bridge (Baltimore)
The Francis Scott Key Bridge was a 1.6-mile steel truss bridge carrying Interstate 695 over the Patapsco River at Baltimore's outer harbor; opened in 1977, it collapsed in 2024 after a ship strike.
Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse
The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse occurred on March 26, 2024, when the containership Dali lost power and struck the bridge in Baltimore, killing six workers.
Francis Scott Key Bridge replacement
The Francis Scott Key Bridge replacement, also called the Key Bridge replacement, is a cable-stayed bridge being built across the Patapsco River in Baltimore after the original collapsed in 2024.
Franciscan friary
Franciscan friary (Greyfriars): a house of the mendicant Franciscan order in England from 1224; about 60 existed by the 1530s. The Richmond friary, founded 1257-8 and dissolved January 1539, survives as scheduled monument 1020405.
Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry (1929–2025), born Frank Owen Goldberg, was a Canadian-born American architect in Los Angeles, famous for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright, born Frank Lincoln Wright, was an American architect who designed more than 1,100 buildings, including Fallingwater and the Guggenheim Museum, and pioneered organic architecture.
Frankenstein Castle
Frankenstein Castle (Burg Frankenstein) is a ruined hill castle near Darmstadt, Germany, first documented in 1252 and famous for its coincidental match with Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein.
Frankfurt kitchen
The Frankfurt kitchen (Frankfurter Küche) is a compact standardized fitted kitchen designed in 1926 by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky for Frankfurt's New Frankfurt housing program, and it is regarded as the prototype of the modern built-in kitchen.
Franklin Dam controversy
The Franklin Dam controversy, known as the Gordon below Franklin Scheme, was an Australian conservation battle of the late 1970s and early 1980s over a proposed dam in south-west Tasmania.
Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute is a science museum and education center in Philadelphia, founded in 1824 in honor of Benjamin Franklin and now on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
Frauenkirche, Dresden
The Frauenkirche, meaning Church of Our Lady, is a Lutheran baroque church in Dresden built by George Bähr between 1726 and 1743 and destroyed in 1945.
Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) was an American landscape architect who co-designed New York's Central Park with Calvert Vaux and founded the profession of landscape architecture in the United States.
Freeboard (hydrology)
Freeboard in hydrology is the vertical distance between the design water surface and the top of a dam, levee, or channel, kept as a margin against uncertainty.
Freeze desalination
Freeze desalination is a desalination method in which saline water is cooled until pure ice crystals form, excluding salt, then washed and melted into freshwater.
Frei Otto
Frei Otto (1925–2015) was a German architect and structural engineer, a pioneer of lightweight tensile architecture known for the Munich Olympic Stadium roof and the Expo 67 German pavilion.
Freight house
A freight house is a railroad building for receiving, storing, and delivering freight, most notably less-than-carload shipments; in Britain it was called a goods shed.
Fréjus Road Tunnel
The Fréjus Road Tunnel is a 12,868 m motorway tunnel under the Alps connecting Modane, France, with Bardonecchia, Italy. Built between 1974 and 1980, it gained a second tube in 2025.
French drain
A French drain, also called a rubble drain, is a sloped gravel-filled trench with a perforated pipe that carries water away, named for Henry Flagg French.
French Gothic
French Gothic is the Gothic architecture that originated around Paris in the mid-twelfth century, based on the pointed arch, the rib vault, and flying buttresses, and practiced until about 1500.
Fresh Kills Landfill
Fresh Kills Landfill was a municipal landfill on Staten Island, New York City, operating from 1948 to 2001 and once the largest in the United States.
Fresh Thyme
Fresh Thyme Market, formerly Fresh Thyme Farmers Market, is a Midwest-based American chain of natural and organic grocery stores, operating about 70 stores in ten states.
Freyssinet (company)
Freyssinet is a French specialist civil engineering company founded in 1943 by Eugène Freyssinet, best known for prestressed concrete and post-tensioning; it is part of Soletanche Freyssinet within VINCI Construction.
Friant Dam
Friant Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the San Joaquin River near Fresno, California, built 1939 to 1942; it impounds Millerton Lake and feeds the Central Valley Project.
Friant-Kern Canal
The Friant-Kern Canal is a 152-mile irrigation canal in Central California, running from Friant Dam on the San Joaquin River to the Kern River near Bakersfield.
Friar Park
Friar Park is a Victorian Gothic country house with ornamental gardens on the western edge of Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, built from 1889 for Sir Frank Crisp and known as George Harrison's home.
Friction pendulum bearing
The friction pendulum bearing, or Friction Pendulum System, is a seismic isolation device patented by Victor Zayas in 1987 that supports buildings on a spherical sliding surface.
Friedrich Voss
Friedrich Voss was a German civil engineer, born in Calvörde, best known for the Rendsburg High Bridge of 1913 and the canal bridges at Holtenau and Hochdonn.
Friendship Bridge
The Friendship Bridge, also called the Danube Bridge, is a combined road and railway bridge across the Danube between Ruse, Bulgaria, and Giurgiu, Romania, opened in 1954.