Fatigue failure is a failure mechanism which results from the formation and growth of cracks under repeated cyclic stress loading, leading to fracture. It can result in failure at stress levels well ...

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 ...