ABSTRACT
The various scientific and technical methods for assisting diagnosis are addressed in this chapter. It includes destructive as well as non-destructive testing as aids to diagnosis.
Information and decision aids comprise diagnostic charts, matrices, tables and computer-based expert systems (CIB 1993). An example of diagnostic information (for collection)–that is, a schedule of defects – is shown in Appendix B. The following decision aids (for diagnosis) are contained in Appendix C.
