Course Details

Forensic Engineering - General Methodology

Academic Year 2024/25

DVB076 course is part of 4 study plans

​ DKA-E Winter Semester 2nd year

​ DPA-E Winter Semester 2nd year

​ DKC-E Winter Semester 2nd year

​ DPC-E Winter Semester 2nd year

Activity of experts (history, present regulations, subject practicing expert activity). Discharge of the expert activity:
- Prime acts of the expert, expert’s share in a proof detention.
- Scheme of the expert evidence and expertise.
- Systematic complex concept of the experts evidence and expertise (systematic analysis of the accident’s process, array of hypotheses, array of traces, array of reflection, array of the damage equivalence, application of the logic rules, presumption of innocence in the application of the technical analysis).
- Methods of expert’s analysis (reverse calculation method of the accident process, method of narrowing of the limits, analysis of the processes in the time and space, law and engineering confrontation, analysis of the break down).
- Application of regulations in the expert evidence, probability in the expertise.
specificity of the expert activity in the individual sorts of proceeding (criminal, civil, administrative),
teamwork at expertise.
- Expert activity experience, expert evidence defects.
Introduction to special methodology of forensic engineering (civil engineering, mechanical engineering, analysis of traffic accidents, evaluation of property, assessment of financial damage).

Credits

8 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

winter

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Aleš Vémola, Ph.D., dr. h. c.

Institute

Institute of Structural Economics and Management

Forms and criteria of assessment

examination

Entry Knowledge

Special input knowledge is not required

Aims

Legal regulation and method of performing expert work after 1.1. 2021, relation to Forensic Engineering.


Systematic knowledge of the Forensic Engineering subject and the practical skill of applying solutions to negative phenomena in engineering practice.

Basic Literature

BRADÁČ, A. a kol.: Soudní inženýrství, Akademické nakladatelství CERM, Brno 1999 (cs)
BRADÁČ, A. a kol. (Vémola): Soudní znalectví ve vybraných technických a ekonomických oborech po 1. 1. 2021, Akademické nakladatelství CERM, Brno 2021 (cs)

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/283287

Lecture

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Activity of experts (history, present regulations, subject practicing experts activity).
  • 2. Prime acts of the expert, expert’s share in a proof detention.
  • 3. Scheme of the experts evidence and expertise.
  • 4. Systematic complex concept of the experts evidence and expertise (systematic analysis of the accident’s process, array of hypotheses, array of traces, array of reflection, array of the damage equivalence).
  • 5. Application of the logic rules in the forensic engineering, presumption of innocence in the application of the technical analysis.
  • 6. Methods of expert’s analysis (reverse calculation method of the accident process, method of the narrowing of the limits, analysis of the processes in the time and space, law and engineering confrontation, analysis of the break down).
  • 7. Application of regulations in expert evidence, probability in the expertise.
  • 8. Specificity of the expert activity in the individual sorts of proceeding (criminal, civil, administrative).
  • 9. Teamwork at expertise.
  • 10. Expert activity experience, expert evidence defects.
  • 11. Introduction to special methodology of forensic engineering – cause of the defect and disturbance, expert activity in civil engineering.
  • 12. Expert activity in mechanical engineering, analysis of traffic accidents.
  • 13. property valuation, assessment of financial damage.