Forensic Engineering, Second Edition

JACOB FELD (1899-1975) was a prominent structural engineer in New York for many years with design responsibility for a number of important buildings, including the New York Coliseum, Guggenheim Museum, Yonkers Raceway, and Lincoln Center. From 1966 until his death in 1975, he was a partner in the firm of Feld, Kaminetzky & Cohen. Feld was a graduate of City College, receiving an honorary doctor of laws degree from that institution in 1972, as well as a PhD from the University of Cincinnati in 1922. He served as president of the New York Academy of Sciences and was a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), which cited him as "Metropolitan Engineer of the Year" in 1969. Feld also received the Townsend Harris Award of the City College Alumni Association, the Alumni Award of the University of Cincinnati, and the French Order of Merit. He taught as a visiting professor at Purdue University, Northwestern University, and North Carolina State University.

KENNETH L. CARPER, a registered architect with degrees in both architecture and civil engineering, is a professor in the School of Architecture at Washington State University. He has received many teaching awards, including the 1994 all-university President's Faculty Excellence Award at WSU. A past chair of the ASCE Technical Council on Forensic Engineering, Carper is the current and founding Editor in Chief of the ASCE Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities. His professional awards include the national ASCE Daniel W. Mead and Richard Torrens Awards. In 1994, he was named "Engineer of the Year" by the Inland Empire Section of ASCE (Washington and Idaho). Carper has lectured extensively about structural failure tostudents, faculty, and professional groups of architects, engineers, and building officials in the United States, Canada, Europe, India, and Japan. Prior publications include the books Forensic Engineering and Forensic Engineering: Learning from Failures.