Examples of metal fatigue

• Instead, he took in someone who was an expert in metal fatigue.

• The rails are simply not standing up to the huge increase in traffic, and are suffering from metal fatigue.

• These stations are human artefacts and can be subject to human error, faults in design, metal fatigue, and so on.

• How are we to test them for metal fatigue, and so on?

• There have been teething troubles since, caused mainly by corrosion and metal fatigue.

• Four of the published papers and the six being prepared relate to metal fatigue in bridges.

• For example, we do not know how they will be affected by metal fatigue.

• It is, therefore, too early to say whether this metal fatigue was a contributory factor in the accident.