Damage Causes of failure of a bungee cord Evidence types: Damage (damaged bungee cord and newly bound cord as control sample) Links: Conference abstract Damage to clothing and shoes caused by lightning strike Evidence types: Damage (victims’ cloths, socks and shoes) Links: Conference abstract Damage on flexible compressed air tubings in a pharmaceutical plant Evidence […]
Damage Evidence
OCCURRENCE OF DAMAGE EVIDENCE Damage evidence is commonly encountered in: civil cases involving product liability and traffic accident insurance claims; industrial trouble-shooting and failure analysis, and criminal investigations of fires, explosions, vandalism, robbery, housebreaking, drug trafficking, sexual and violent assaults, homicides and suicides. The evidence types encountered are extremely diverse and include the following: Consumer […]
Causes of damage to leather products
Lim Chin Chin*, Michael Tay Ming Kiong International Association of Forensic Sciences, 16th Triennial Meeting August 2002, Montpellier, France, abstract No. PO-278 (poster presentation) Objectives: This paper studies the causes of damage to two leather products subjected to different environments. Nature of study: Tanned leather is a strong and durable material commonly used in footwear, […]
Damages by an excavator bucket to a high-tension electric cable
Michael Tay Ming Kiong*, Lim T.B, Chow Y.S International Association of Forensic Sciences, 16th Triennial Meeting August 2002, Montpellier, France. (oral presentation) Objectives: This paper presents a study of damages to a live buried 230-kV electric cable by an excavator bucket at a work-site where cable-laying work was in progress. The cable was buried under about […]
Cut characteristics of an optical cable by different tools
Yap T.W*, Michael Tay Ming Kiong International Association of Forensic Sciences, 16th Triennial Meeting August 2002, Montpellier, France. (oral presentation) Objectives: The fracture of a brittle or ductile material due to failure or deliberate cut has been well studied by many in the forensic science field. However, damages to ductile and brittle materials combined in […]