Mechanical failure analysis foundation and application course briefly introduces the development history of failure analysis, analysis methods and analysis steps, focus on material and structure failure behavior and fracture characteristics identification, structural damage detection, material damage the safety and life of quantitative evaluation, a computer aided failure analysis, fracture surface crack propagation life pushes and stress analysis technology, failure analysis of the structure, the initial fatigue quality evaluation of materials and structure, macroscopic and microscopic characteristics of the metal structure material, gear, shaft, bearing and the machine failure analysis.