This site includes photographs of failed parts due to metal fatigue along with accompanying text. Failures include truck, car, and bicycle parts. Other sections of the "museum" include failures due to corrosion, manufacturing faults, bicycle component failure, polymer component failure, and failure of a carbon fiber reinforced polymer bicycle frame.

Citation: "Metal Fatigue Section." Component Failure Museum. The Open University, Department of Materials Engineering. ©2005 Materials Engineering.

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