Forensic engineering investigation / Randall K. Noon.
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Boca Raton, FL :
CRC Press,
2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Wind damage to residential structures
- Lightning damage to well pumps
- Evaluating blasting damage
- Building collapse due to roof leakage
- Putting machines and people together
- Determining the point of origin of a fire
- Electrical shorting
- Explosions
- Determining the point of ignition of an explosion
- Arson and incendiary fires
- Simple skids
- Simple vehicular falls
- Vehicle performance
- Momentum methods
- Energy methods
- Curves and turns
- Visual perception and motorcycle accidents
- Interpreting lamp filament damages
- Automotive fires
- Hail damage
- Blaming brick freeze-thaw deterioration on hail
- Management's role in accidents and catastrophic events.