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Mechanical overload is the failure or fracture of a product or component as a result of a single event. It is a commonfailure mode. The terms are used inforensic engineering andstructural engineering when analysing product failure. Failure may occur because either the product is weaker than expected owing to astress concentration, or the applied load is greater than expected and exceeds the normaltensile strength,shear strength orcompressive strength of the product.

• Forensic engineering
• Stress analysis
• Structural engineering

• Strength of Materials, 3rd edition, Krieger Publishing Company, 1976, by Timoshenko S.,ISBN 0-88275-420-3
• Forensic Materials Engineering: Case Studies by Peter Rhys Lewis, Colin Gagg, Ken Reynolds, CRC Press (2004).

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