As per ASCE: “Forensic engineering is the application of engineering principles to the investigation of failures or other performance problems. Forensic engineering also involves testimony on the findings of these investigations before a court of law or other judicial forum, when required”
Have you been involved in any forensic engineering investigations of failed structures or infrastructures. If yes, kindly list important lessons Learnt?
As a geotechnical engineering consultant, I got involved over the past three decades of my profession in several forensic investigations of projects and problems in my area of expertise, some of these problems: 1) slope Instabilities, embankments and cut slopes failures along highways, 2) Structural Damages of villas due to foundations Heave, 3) Failure of retaining structures due to failure of anchoring system, 4) contamination of ground water from solid waste disposal areas, 4) failure of dikes on soft ground in mining industries, 5) excessive seepage through embankment dams, 6) Cracking of buildings due to vibrations from a near by construction activities, and others, 7) failure of buildings due to landslides encountering the buildings, 8) cracks in the structure of bridges due to excessive differential settlement in the bridge foundation resulting from ground instabilities and erosion or running water, etc. In addition to other forensic geotechnical engineering investigations.
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