NEW YORK (WABC) -- NTSB investigators are trying to figure out why a piece of an engine tore off during a Southwest Airlines flight that took off from LaGuardia, and broke the window of the Boeing 737 ...

Fig. 1. Standard method used for displaying fatigue test results. 1a (right) shows standard fatigue testing terminology, and 1b. (left) depicts an S-N diagram. Photo Credit: Dan Adams Fatigue testing ...

David Fry, Metals Market Manager for Instron, talks to AZoM about the need for metals testing and the equipment required for this. Metals testing solutions, which Instron provides, encompass a variety ...

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 the ...

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 ...

(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 ...

A typical microstructure (grain structure at the micron scale) of metallic material. (Courtesy: J Stinville) The tiniest defects in a metal can cause it to fail, but predicting when this so-called ...