One of the fundamental design requirements for load carrying things such as buildings, bridges, machines and cars etc. is to prevent them from failure. Therefore "fail or not fail?" is a most often asked question in a designer's mind. Written in a unique way by an author who has both teaching and engineering consulting experience, this book aims to provide a simple general reading material or a complementary book to text books for young students or engineers. Using plain language, the book introduces most of the failure modes encountered in engineering practice and the relevant theories used...