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Widespread Fatigue Damage and Limit of Validity

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Multiple site damage (MSD) and multi element damage (MED) decrease the number of cycles up to failure, and concomitantly decrease the interval for inspection.

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Tavares, S.M.O., de Castro, P.M.S.T. (2019). Widespread Fatigue Damage and Limit of Validity. In: Damage Tolerance of Metallic Aircraft Structures. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70190-5_5

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