The Practice of Forensic Structural Engineering in IABSE Member Countries: preliminary review of survey 2022

Abstract

<p>The IABSE Task Group 5.1 on Forensic Structural Engineering aims to examine and to mitigate structural failures by sharing knowledge of technical, human, and organizational causes of failures, in addition to methods and techniques in forensic investigation processes. The expertise of Forensic Engineering is yet to be worldwide recognised as a specific domain of civil engineering practice and this article amends previously published technical reports in 2012, 2014 and 2015 by former IABSE Working Group 8 following a new survey carried out in 2020-2022.</p><p>This new survey has been developed with the lessons learnt from the previous survey in 2013-2014.</p><p>This article is a preliminary report on some topics of the survey and will allow to familiarize with the state-of-art in forensic structural engineering practice across 22 countries.</p>