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

Citation: "Corrosion Failures." Component Failure Museum. The Open University, Department of Materials Engineering. © 2005 Materials Engineering. Last updated 23 March 2005.

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