This correlation provides a way to rapidly predict the fatigue strength of metals, they say. In their work, they subjected a variety of face-centred cubic (FCC), hexagonal close-packed (HCP) and ...

In so doing, they found that metal fatigue occurring in the anode (due to the expansion and contraction of lithium during charging and recharging) was the main reason for battery failure.

Metal Fatigue. 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.

Metal fatigue can cause catastrophic failures in areas including aviation - jet engines, for instance - and infrastructure - bridges and other structures.

1. A National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) research team has identified the mechanism by which microscopic fatigue cracks grow in metals, solving a half-century-old mystery. The team ...

Demkowicz, however, calculated that under certain conditions, metals should be able to weld shut cracks created by fatigue damage. “It proved difficult to come up with an experiment that could test my ...