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All areas of industry are affected by premature failure of components which must be investigated so as to avoid future repetition. However, the complexity of the interrelations between design stress and environment often makes this a daunting task, except for the engineer with considerable knowledge or experience in failure analysis. Modern developments in information technology should allow this...