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  title info:
    title: Forensic engineering
    sub title: environmental case histories for civil engineers and geologists
  name:
    name part: Shuirman, Gerard.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Slosson, James E.
    name part: 1923-
  name:
    name part: ScienceDirect (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Case studies.
  genre: Études de cas.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    place:
      place term: San Diego
    publisher: Academic Press
    date issued: ©1992
    date issued: 1992
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xix, 296 pages) : illustrations, maps
  abstract: "The expert witness, whether uninitiated or veteran, must be prepared to deal with the inevitable confrontations inherent in the judicial process. Book jacket."--Jacket.
  table of contents: Forensic Investigations: a Growth Industry -- An Overabundance of Attorneys? -- Decline of Immunity -- Government Mismanagement -- The Scarce Land Syndrome -- Dishonest or Incompetent Civil Engineers and Geologists -- The Role of the Expert Witness -- Forensic Work Is Not for Everyone -- Qualifications -- Plaintiff or Defendant? -- Agreement with Client -- Introduction to Case Histories -- Malibu Landslide: Massive Litigation -- The Event -- The Investigation -- Water-Line Leaks -- Rainfall Infiltration -- Sewage Effluent Infiltration -- Infiltration Due to Irrigation -- Infiltration Summary -- Effect of Site Improvements -- Water Budget -- Geologic Investigation Principles -- Historic Development of the Landslide -- Geomorphic Investigation -- Application of Multiple Hypotheses Method -- Investigation Summary -- Mitigation -- The Litigation -- The Initial Trial -- The Post Mortem -- Failure to Recognize or Acknowledge Existence of a Landslide -- Establishing Proper Design Priorities -- Wisdom of Using "Performance" Specifications -- Public versus Private Works -- The Sewer Dilemma -- Finding Other Means of Reducing Water Infiltration -- To Remove or Not to Remove Roadway Debris--A Catch-22 -- Water-Line Ruptures -- Land-Planning Philosophy -- Utah Landslide: Rural Slides Can be Devastating Too -- The Event -- The Investigation -- Effect of Rainfall -- Previous Geologic Observations -- Field Tests -- Mitigation Study -- Landslide Dimensions -- The Litigation -- The Post Mortem.
  note: Gerard Shuirman, James E. Slosson.
  note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
  note: digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-289) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Forensic engineering
    topic: Environmental aspects
  subject:
    topic: Forensic engineering
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Ingénierie légale
    topic: Aspect de l'environnement
  subject:
    topic: Ingénierie légale
    genre: Études de cas
  subject:
    topic: Forensic engineering
  subject:
    topic: Forensic engineering
    topic: Environmental aspects
  subject:
    topic: Technik
  subject:
    topic: Umweltschaden
  subject:
    topic: Recht
  subject:
    topic: Geologia geral
  subject:
    topic: Engenharia civil
  subject:
    topic: Civil engineering
  classification: TA219 .S58 1992
  classification: 624
  classification: 56.11
  classification: 56.47
  classification: 38 19
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    origin info:
      publisher: San Diego : Academic Press, ©1992
    identifier: (DLC) 91034361
    identifier: (OCoLC)24430081
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  record info:
    record content source: OCLCE
    record creation date: 100702
    record change date: 20260326175724.3
    record identifier: in00005743618
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng