FORENSIC ENGINEERING – Investigation of Failures (6-PDH) Designed to benefit engineers of all disciplines BY: Mohammad Ayub, PE, SE Course Outline: Part I 1. Forensic engineer 2. Expertise of forensic engineer 3. Search and Rescue efforts 4. Recovery mode 5. Collection of documents 6. Observation, documentation and recording of the collapse 7. Use of drone 8. List of eye-witnesses 9. Identification, marking and safe storage of critical evidences 10. Site agreement among all the litigants. 11. Selection of laboratory for testing 12. Analyses and computations, long hand and software use 13. Was the original design compliant with industry standards? 14. Was the construction compliant with the industry standards 15. Causal determination 16. Construction or design deficiencies 17. Report Writing 18. Formulation of findings and conclusions 19. Supporting documents 20. Review from a legal perspective 21. Final report Part II: Review of actual cases of catastrophic cases, including the following: 1. Failure of FIU pedestrian bridge collapse. Six fatalities 2. Investigation of the Collapses of Two Pedestrian Bridges under Construction at Wake Technical Community College Campus, Raleigh, NC. One fatality 3. Investigation of the Parking Garage Collapse during Construction at Miami Dade College, Doral, FL. Four fatalities 4. Investigation of a Tower Crane Collapse in San Francisco, California. Four fatalities