When I was a young (19-years-old), newly-minted physicist, my first professional job was testing the metal fatigue properties of various Australian steels at BHP Port Kembla. (In fact, I tested ...

In an experiment, scientists observed a metal healing itself ... Cracks caused by the kind of strain described above are known as fatigue damage: repeated stress and motion that causes microscopic ...

known as fatigue damage, results from repeated stresses that cause microscopic breaks in materials. This form of degradation is a common problem that can lead to the failure of metal structures ...