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Metal failure
Name(s):
Metal fracture
Metal fatigue
Incidence
Traces of metal fatigue found in a pressure wall of a jumbo jet that crashed in 1985, could have contributed to a rupture in the rear pressure bulkhead, the likely cause of the crash.
Broader
Failure of materials
Narrower
Brittle fracture of metals
Strategy(ies)
Preventing metal fatigue
Using stronger metals
Value(s)
Failure
Fatigue
Reference(s)
Kocanda, S: Fatigue Failure of Metals
Frost, N E, et al: Metal Fatigue
Gifkins, R C: Strength of Metals and Alloys (ICSMA 6) Proceedings of the 6th International Conference, Melbourne, Australia, August 16-20, 1982
Tanaka, T M and Komai, K: Current Research on Fatigue Cracks
Gurney, T R: Fatigue of Welded Structures
Type
(D) Detailed problems