General Forensic & Physical Evidence

Forensics is a vast field of science. There are numerous types of evidence encountered daily. These evidences requires special care to extract evidentiary information that can be used during a case’s trial. This needs special analysis of different types of evidence and is the reason why there are so many branches of forensic sciences. It …

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Casting a shoe impression is snow is different than casting over soil or sand. Before you even start casting, as a forensic examiner, you have to first figure out what kind of snow surface it has. Is it dry snow, or wet, or soft and fragile? After considering all this, you have to choose highlighting …

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Casting can be done on a 3d impression of evidence. With the introduction and development of cameras, many forensic examiners believed that the use of casting will be discontinued but that was proven to be untrue. Still, casting is an important tool in forensic science. And, in this short article, I am going to state …

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The use of forensic casting materials starts as soon as a 3D impression is needed to be documented. And for analyzing a 3D impression, a forensic investigator requires a cast for compression with a reference sample. But how to choose which casting material is best on different surfaces. Here is a short table: Surfaces With …

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While dealing with forensic evidence related to structural failure or to know the reason behind it, cement, mortar, and concrete analysis is performed. In Forensic Mortar and Concrete Analysis, chemical tests such as the percentage of cement in a mortar, EDTA titration test is done for mortar analysis, while for concrete analysis silica test, chlorine …

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Forensic analysis of cement is majorly performed when there is a possibility of adulteration in cement samples. In analysis, one of the key steps is to identify which type of adulterant is used with cement. So, in general terms, it is defined as: Adulteration of cement is characterized as the addition of extra components to …

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