Short columns can induced brittle failure, strengthen it with additional stirrups, which shearing capacity can meet the seismic requirements.
When all the gold does not dissolve in the solder brittle failure occurs near the goldsolder interface .
As for steel Bridges, the diseases can be classified into different kinds, which the important ones are fatigue and brittle failure, corrosion, buckling and mechanical failure.
On the basis of these field and experimental results he suggests the creep dilatancy theory (1981, 1983) and the simplified brittle failure theory.
