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Endurance limit of metals and alloys

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A brief historical review of the development of research of fatigue resistance of metallic materials is presented. Published data and our own results are used to analyze fatigue curves at various endurances and mechanisms of crack nucleation in fatigue tests.

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Translated from Metallovedenie i Termicheskaya Obrabotka Metallov, No. 2, pp. 47–56, February, 2008.

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Terent’ev, V.F. Endurance limit of metals and alloys. Met Sci Heat Treat 50, 88–96 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11041-008-9018-3

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