0 a weakness that develops in metal structures that are used repeatedly
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.
