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Everything about Fatigue testing
Determination of a material or structure's resiliency against cyclic loading
Fatigue testing is a specialised form of mechanical testing that is performed by applying cyclic loading to a coupon or structure. These tests are used either to generate fatigue life and crack growth data, identify critical locations or demonstrate the safety of a structure that may be susceptible to fatigue. Fatigue tests are used on a range of components from coupons through to full size test articles such as automobiles and aircraft. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Fatigue testingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Standardization of an ultrasonic fatigue testing method in JapanInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1The most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Fatigue Testing of Suture AnchorsCited 57 times
- Go sideways: Fatigue (material)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: Stress testingA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Fatigue Testing of Suture Anchors
Micromechanical fatigue testing
Fatigue testing median sternotomy closures
Ultrasonic fatigue testing of concrete
Fatigue Testing of Drillpipe
Accelerated fatigue testing method
Resonant-vibration fatigue testing
Flexural fatigue testing of polyesters
🆕 Influential since 2022
Standardization of an ultrasonic fatigue testing method in Japan
Detection of early fatigue damage during ultrasonic fatigue testing of steel by acoustic emission monitoring
Accelerated axial fatigue testing of carbon fiber reinforced plastics quasi‐isotropic laminate by using ultrasonic fatigue testing machine
Fatigue tensile testing of glass fiber-reinforced polymer reinforcing bars
Fatigue Failure in Polymeric Materials: Insights from Experimental Testing
📚 Books worth reading
Dynamic Behavior of Materials, Volume 1Dan Casem, Leslie Lamberson · 2013- 📕Case histories in vibration analysis and metal fatigue for the practicing engineerAnthony Sofronas · 2012
Thermodynamic Degradation ScienceAlec Feinberg · 2016- 📕Thermal-mechanical fatigue test apparatus for metal matrix composites and joint attachmentsLeonard J. Westfall · 1986
- 📕Three-dimensional elastic-plastic finite-element analyses of constraint variations in cracked bodiesJ. C. Newman · 1993
- 📕Age-related differences in complex monitoring performanceRichard I. Thackray · 1981
- 📕Open hole and post-impact compression fatigue of stitched and unstitched carbon/epoxy compositesM. A. Portanova · 1990
- 📕An assessment of fatigue damage and crack growth prediction techniquesNorth Atlantic Treaty Organization. Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development. · 1994
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