fatigue crack
- noun
- Specialized
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- For the past 16 years at the Air Force Research Laboratory, in addition to conducting research on thermomechanical fatigue crack growth, he has planned, directed, and managed research and development programs to develop design methods for life prediction to assure the structural integrity of advanced aerospace vehicles under flight-simulated loads.
- fatigue cracks growth
Examples
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The engineer discovered a fatigue crack in the aircraft wing during the routine inspection.
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Crack growth by fatigue or SCC can be treated, and fatigue crack growth data for some 400 materials are in a built-in library. Ph. (408) 247-9275.
Academic text (1997) -
His contributions to materials engineering focus on the control of crack growth and fatigue crack propagation.
Academic text (2003) -
First, fatigue failures can be thought of as the culmination of two processes: fatigue crack initiation and crack propagation to failure.
Academic text (1995) -
He laid to rest the argument about fatigue-crack retardation, showing that for plane-strain experiments, retardation was strictly a surface phenomenon.
Academic text (1996) -
He has contributed to research on creep and fatigue-crack growth, thermal ratcheting, corrosion, fatigue-crack initiation, and the growth of small cracks.
Academic text (1996) -
He has contributed to research on creep and fatigue-crack growth, thermal ratcheting, corrosion, fatigue-crack initiation, and the growth of small cracks.
Academic text (1996) -
The team is studying how fatigue cracks develop in various metal alloys over time.
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Regular maintenance can help identify fatigue cracks before they lead to serious structural failures.
Synonyms
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A long narrow opening in a surface
A crack that appears in metal or bone after repeated stress
How Damaged
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: 'fatigue' denotes material weakening from repeated stress and 'crack' denotes a split, so 'fatigue crack' straightforwardly means a crack caused by fatigue. This modifier+head compound follows a common morphological pattern found across languages and is predictable for a learner who knows both constituent words, even if the term is somewhat technical.
Etymology
The term fatigue crack comes from the idea that metal can get 'tired' after many pushes or bends, and then a small crack appears because of that fatigue. So, the phrase means 'a crack caused by repeated stress'.