Fatigue failure is a failure mechanism which results from the formation and growth of cracks under repeated cyclic stress ...

The lower S-N curves show the difference in the behavior of this type of alloy and a carbon steel. The carbon steel shows a "fatigue limit" below which its fatigue life tends to infinity. An aluminum ...

The S-N curve shows the performance of some uniaxial fiber-reinforced ... Compression testing shows a stress level decrease of about a factor of two for the same fatigue life. These tests suggest that ...