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Fracture and Fatigue: How Things Actually Fail

Most catastrophic structural failures happen far below yield strength, because a crack was already there. This lesson builds the fracture mechanics that predicts the largest crack a part can carry, shows why raising strength shrinks that number, and works through the two disasters that turned fatigue from a curiosity into a design discipline.

10 steps·~15 min

Fracture and Fatigue: How Things Actually Fail

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