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Nature and Phenomenology of Fatigue

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For centuries man has been aware that the repeated application of loads would lead to the early failure of materials. It came as something of a surprise, however, when he also found, almost two centuries ago, that failure could occur under stresses of relatively low amplitude, lower than the yield strength σy of the material.

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Milella, P.P. (2024). Nature and Phenomenology of Fatigue. In: Fatigue and Corrosion in Metals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51350-3_1

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