How To Handle Mechanical Failures During An Endurance Race
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The surface of an aluminum crank arm from a bicycle is broken. The dark side (due to oil, dirt and stress) is a slow-growing fatigue crack and may have striations. The bright spot is caused by a sudden fracture.
How To Handle Mechanical Failures During An Endurance Race
In materials science, fatigue is the initiation and propagation of cracks in a material due to cyclic loading. Once a fatigue crack has initiated, it grows by a small amount with each loading cycle, often causing striations on some part of the fracture surface. The crack continues to grow until it reaches a critical size, which occurs when the stress intensity factor of the crack exceeds the fracture toughness of the material, resulting in … Read the rest