Affiliation:
1. Consulting Engineer, Manhasset, NY, USA; Visiting Professor, Columbia UniversityNew YorkUSA
Abstract
Ever more structural failures make the news throughout the world. With the proliferation of failures, forensic structural engineering has become a field of professional practice of expert consultants/witnesses in both the investigation and litigation of failures. This paper is an overview of the qualifications, roles, ethics and scope of the work of expert consultants/witnesses who are retained after failures of structures in the USA.
Subject
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
Cited by
2 articles.
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1. Court Litigation of Construction “Pathologies”;Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Forensic Engineering;2021-09-30
2. Editorial: Participating in the forensic engineering circle of knowledge;Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Forensic Engineering;2011-05