The West Gate Bridge Collapse
The failure during construction of the West Gate Bridge in Melbourne, Australia in 1970 was one of world’s worst bridge collapses. Thirty five people died
26 October 2020
Forensic engineering is a distinct speciality within the wider field of engineering, which focuses on physical evidence, verifiable facts, and well-proven scientific principles to establish the cause of a failure or defect.
This expertise is quite different from conventional engineering design, which focuses on a client’s requirements and constraints and the development of solutions based on well established engineering assumptions.
In disputes, forensic expertise and design expertise play quite distinct roles. An engineer with design expertise determines if a structure was designed and constructed correctly, whereas an engineer with forensic expertise determines the cause of a defect or failure in a forensically sound manner.
Design is concerned with what should have happened, forensics is concerned with what actually happened.
The failure during construction of the West Gate Bridge in Melbourne, Australia in 1970 was one of world’s worst bridge collapses. Thirty five people died
A curious paradox lies at the heart of trying to understand why the Miami bridge collapsed. The more details you learn of what happened, the
In Part 1 of our Miami Bridge failure series we discussed how re-tensioning Member 11, undertaken to close cracks in the concrete, led to the bridge’s sudden
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