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Site Application: Forensic Civil Cases

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In this chapter, some problems related to civil cases are addressed and solved. Many litigations in the courtrooms concern damage caused by neglect and lack of maintenance, for example of the underground water pipe and sewage systems, large infrastructures (the state of conservation of the irons, the quality of the concrete) etc. Therefore, some important cases will be illustrated to explain how to tackle and solve these important problems.

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Leucci, G. (2020). Site Application: Forensic Civil Cases. In: Advances in Geophysical Methods Applied to Forensic Investigations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46242-0_5

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