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Tree House Diagram & Failure Carriers

Course subject(s) 1. Introduction to Forensic Engineering

As you have learned previously, Forensic Engineering comes into play when failure of a technical system occurs, or if failure of a technical system is suspected to be the potential cause of an adverse advent. But what is failure really?

Failure is when a technical system has observably or measurably not fulfilled its functions in its utilization phase. Forensic Engineers may study these failures for reasons such as to determine:

  • what happened,
  • what caused it to happen,
  • how it could have been avoided,
  • how the technical system could be improved to avoid the event in the future.

The root causes of a failure can be in any of the life-cycle phases. And that is what the Tree House of Failures explained in this video will help you with.

Tree house of Failures

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