Engineers have identified a fundamental deformation mechanism that can be leveraged to greatly enhance the fatigue properties of metals, opening the door to a new strategy for designing ...

Take a wire paperclip. Now, bend it back and forth in the same spot 15, maybe 20 times. Chances are the paperclip will have broken before you finish. This is due to what’s called metal fatigue, which ...

(Nanowerk News) A new study in the journal Nature ("History-independent cyclic response of nanotwinned metals") shows how metals can be patterned at the nanoscale to be more resistant to fatigue, the ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- Take a wire paperclip. Now, bend it back and forth in the same spot 15, maybe 20 times. Chances are the paperclip will have broken before you finish. This is due to what's ...

Fatigue due to repetitive strain is the leading cause of failure in metal components and structures, but new research shows how crystalline structures called nanotwins can slow the accumulation of ...

The contents have been developed as course notes for training courses presented to engineers who need to apply fatigue knowledge in engineering design, fatigue testing and failure investigation.

Material Technologies Inc. has many of the hallmarks of a startup. The Los Angeles-based company has technology that it claims will revolutionize its industry in this case the critical process of ...

Mechanical testing is a way of testing and measuring the properties of materials. Machines/instruments are available to test materials or finished products in a range of different ways including ...