FATIGUE

Fatigue

In materials science, fatigue is the weakening of a material caused by repeatedly applied loads. It is the progressive and localized structural damage that occurs when a material is subjected to cyclic loading. The nominal maximum stress values that cause such damage may be much less than the strength of the material typically quoted as the ultimate tensile stress limit, or the yield stress limit.

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fatigue

Noun

  1. A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
  2. A menial task, especially in the military.
  3. A mechanism of material failure involving of crack growth caused by low-stress cyclic loading.

Verb

  1. to tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion
  2. to lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted
  3. to undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.


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