This page is the setup phase for FORENSIC LABORATORY, which has been initiated in 2015 at METU.

The general information, ideas, symposium news, related faculty members related to the disciplines that we are establishing at our university and an international organization FORENSIC LABORATORY will be announced under this page and current information will be shared.

The meaning of this word, which comes from the root of "forensis" in Latin in the "public court" and has been used as "Forensic" in English for the 17th century, is used as "Scientific tests or techniques used in connection with the detection of crime" or "used to detect crime. scientific tests or techniques. This word, which started to be used more widely after the 1970s, means to determine the criminal or the form of the crime after more forensic and murder cases in the world. The use of the word forensic in the field of engineering in recent years is generally revealing the formation mechanisms of structures, tunnel, dam, machine part, geological movement, material deterioration, wind-snow-wave-freeze-thaw, etc. The determination of effective parameters is briefly towards root cause detection.

The main needs and expected results in the establishment of our laboratory can be listed as follows; cause of damage to any damaged engineering structures

1. research for the insurance industry
2. examining the need for court and expertise where higher levels of data, analysis, testing, account and interdisciplinary work are required
3. for the purpose of improving standards
4. by conducting joint studies with departments such as psychology, statistics, and sociology, to investigate the human dimension and causes of common damage types
5. use of actuarial science approach to calculating the financial magnitude of risk and uncertainty by synthesizing it with basic engineering in the relevant field
6. combining the distribution on the map with GIS to identify priority damage areas and prevent damage
7. creating the insured type score by grouping on the insured profile according to each damage type and taking precautions without damage
8. at the stage of development of measures to minimize damage in case of occurrence of similar disasters by investigating the types of repetitive damage occurring in natural disasters.
9. determination of potential damage cause before the damage occurs by using artificial intelligence and simulation techniques and scoring such damage (tablet, mobile phone, PC applications)
10. preparation of booklets and briefing brochures, papers and discussions. 

Typical research and due diligence studies of our faculty members on Forensic engineering studies are as follows:

1. Solar Power Plant (GES), investigation of ground, workmanship, design, snow load, material related issues and determination of root cause of damage identification (RCoDI).
2. Research on issues related to snow load workmanship, design, snow load, material in wide-angle roofs of industrial buildings and RCoDI.
3. In the damage of hydro power plants (HEPP) and dams, RCoDI by examining the design, material, detail of fittings, suitability of the pipe properties, flow regime.
4. Wind Power Plant (WPP) and aircraft engine
5. RCoDI for building, tunnel, roads associated with landslides and landslides.
6. RCoDI for rotational collapse, cracking etc. in retaining walls.
7. RCoDI damages such as collapse, crush, etc. in irrigation pipe constructions.
8. RCoDI the causes of floods and floods.
9. RCoDI about structures that collapsed with their own weight or were destroyed in the earthquake, causing mortality and injury.
10. Writing tablet applications and preparing quick structural evaluation and decision mechanism software

We anticipate that the 21^st century will be superior in terms of all engineering, standards, taller buildings, wider span bridges, large dams, special materials, smart-intelligent structures, more efficient energy acquisition systems, materials with super strength. In addition to this, FORENSIC LABORATORY has already taken its place in the implementation areas of our FORENSIC LABORATORY by minimizing the possible damage by taking lessons from the damage caused by climate changes and differentiating loading conditions, natural disasters. With the developing information and communication technologies, Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and smart sensors, smart-intelligent structures are started to be used that inform the users before they are damaged and even take precautions to avoid damage, improved fire detection and prevention systems too; but all may still need to be developed, improved, and expanded. Our faculty members' interests and specialties that will support our Laboratory for such a formation are listed below.

Equipment and testing facilities in our laboratory:

- Material loading test (unit deformation - stress graphics, yield break, crack, etc. strength determination)

- Material elastic modulus detection

- Fatigue analysis

- Road, trainway material testing facilities

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