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Small fatigue cracks: mechanics, mechanisms and engineering applications

Abstract

Damage-tolerant design and life-prediction methodologies have been practiced for metallic structures for decades, although their application to brittle materials, such as ceramics, and intermetallic alloys, still poses particular problems, primarily because of their extreme flaw-sensitivity.

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