Editing Forensic engineering (section)

==History==
As the field of engineering has evolved over time, so has the field of forensic engineering. Early examples include investigation of [[bridge failure]]s such as the [[Tay Bridge disaster|Tay rail bridge disaster]] of 1879 and the [[Dee bridge disaster]] of 1847. Many early rail accidents prompted the invention of [[tensile test]]ing of samples and [[fractography]] of failed components.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Cyril Stanley |author-link=Cyril Stanley Smith |title=A History Of Metallography: The Development Of Ideas On The Structure Of Metals Before 1890 |publisher=MIT Press (original edition published by The University of Chicago Press) |year=1988 |isbn=9780262691208 <!-- also 9780262287265 --> |pages=114, 121–122 |lccn=88-12737 |oclc=47011932 |id={{EBSCOhost|49541}} |orig-year=1960}}</ref>