Andrew E. Samuel

Gebundenes Buch

The Winning Line

A Forensic Engineer's Casebook

Beschreibung

Engineering litigation is rarely about who is right or who has been wronged. It is mostly about which side develops and secures a winning line of argument that will, at worst, persuade a ruling body to settle the litigation in their favour or, at best, dissuade the other side from proceeding with the litigation. It rarely proceeds without some doubt in the case evidence. The settlement of this doubt requires the judgement of a ruling body. Expert witnesses can add substance and credibility to the formalised litigation drama.

This book provides a unique sourcebook for expert witness and underwriters in engineering litigation of a range of case examples that can be used to plan their future litigation work and to help them develop their own winning lines of arguments. These examples are based on the author's 30-year experience in engineering litigation and include. Students in forensic engineering and risk engineering will find the book's cross-displinary approach an ideal introduction to the subject.

Autor

Professor Andrew Samuel is Professorial Fellow (hon.) in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Melbourne. His textbook, Introduction to Engineering Design, Samuel and Weir, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999 (0-7506-4282-3) is a commonly used text in its area. His book, Make and Test Projects in Engineering Design is currently in production and will be published by Springer London in mid-2004. The author has thirty years' experience of work as an expert witness in engineering litigation of machinery failure, human injury and intellectual property and is lead consultant for the firm Engineering Investigations and Associates. Forensic Engineering acts as an introduction and guide to those working in forensic engineering by detailing the processes involved in engineering litigation before demonstrating how these work in practice through over thirty case histories in mechanical failure, product liability, human injury, fraud and crime and intellectual property, covering the full range of subjects on which a professional expert witness in engineering may be called to testify. Working as an expert witness is a career option taken by many senior engineering academics and forensic engineering is a growing minor subject in engineering faculties in the US and Europe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 11381327
• 2007
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 729g
• ISBN-13: 9781846280962
• ISBN-10: 1846280966
• Artikelnr.: 14462647