The main sections of the museum are listed below;

Tools of the trade, some ways to investigate problems;
Photoelasticity
Dye penetrant testing

Glossary
of materials engineering terms

Failed nutcrackers

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	These cheap nutcrackers failed on a walnut and caused the user to break a finger.
	Examination of the fracture surface reveals the device had been die-cast with rather poor gas content control and an area of severe porosity was evident on the fracture surface that caused this brittle failure.

17/12/01 ed:AG