The fracture patterns of engineering material are introduced in this paper, including ductile fracture, brittle fracture and rupture. This paper focuses on the fracture of brittle material and the features of the fracture surface, so called fractography. Fractography reveals a lot of useful information such as fracture origin, trace of crack front, development of cracks and associated stress conditions such as opening mode, sliding mode or tearing mode.Applications of fractography in identifying crack origin and mechanism of fracture to Brazilian tests, uniaxial compression tests, deep penetration and crack coalescence, are presented to demonstrate how information of fractography can be used to identify fracture history.