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Forensic engineering
Article By:
Batterman, Steven C. Consultants Associates, Inc., Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
Batterman, Scott D. Consultants Associates, Inc., Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
Last reviewed:January 2020
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1036/1097-8542.801770
Engineering applied toward the purposes of law. In forensic engineering, the majority of investigations are carried out in the context of civil litigation; for example, the cause of a plane crash is often due to defective design, which is a civil litigation consideration. However, the crash could be due to a bomb or terrorist activity in the cockpit, which is a criminal consideration. Often the cause of an accident is initially unknown or misattributed. See also: Criminalistics
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