Items Tagged with 'Forensic Engineering'

A 1972 ENR cover story said of Wiss Janney Elstner Associates in Northbrook, Ill., “It exists largely by looking for trouble, both before and after the fact of structural distress and failure.”

Teamwork and trust would prove as critical as technical skill and logistical resourcefulness to repair the crack traced to a weld defect on the Hernando de Soto Bridge between Tennessee and Arkansas in just three months.

The reality that more structures fail during construction than after completion spurred the forensic engineer, who died Jan. 3 in Manhattan, to champion the first load design standard for temporary and partially completed structures.