Fatigue fractures, by their very nature, are more prevalent in structures that have been subject to stress over a long period of time.

The separation was caused by a fatigue fracture of one of the links attaching the flap to the wing.

As fatigue fractures develop they typically interlock in a pattern known as crocodile cracking.

Due to heterogeneity in micro structure, microscopic roughness of fatigue fracture surfaces is present.

Both systems fail over time through fatigue fractures if operated repeatedly at loads more than a small percentage of their tensile breaking strength.

He developed apparatus for repeated loading of railway axles, mainly because many accidents were caused by sudden fatigue fracture.

The fatigue fracture was a result of the misalignment of that stub pipe, during the counter-boring process.

Great Lakes bulkers also must be designed to withstand springing, or developing resonance with the waves, which can cause fatigue fractures.

Tooth interior fatigue fracture, (TIFF), is a type of gear failure.

Chronic complications are common and include abdominal or pelvic hernias, fatigue fractures of lower ribs and costochondritis.

Due to a double fatigue fracture, however, Morel missed the triathlons necessary for the qualification for the Olympic Games.

Plate 2 Boeing 707 G-BEBP horizontal stabiliser top chord fatigue fracture.

An investigation put the blame on both poor maintenance which allowed bolts to loosen, twist, and break, and on structural fatigue fractures that were discovered afterward.

He had suffered a stress or fatigue fracture, and there was blood in the sand where he landed because the bones had cut a 2 1/2-inch gap in the leg.

Rolls Royce determined that the direct cause of the oil fire and resulting engine failure was a misaligned counter bore within a stub oil pipe leading to a fatigue fracture.

Despite the progress made by his teams in recent years, nonetheless, Tien's ability to rebound and make inside plays has been compromised by fatigue fracture in his left tibia since 2007.

The NTSB ruled that the probable cause was "The fatigue fracture of the lower rudder power control module manifold, which resulted in a lower rudder hardover."

It was diagnosed later a fatigue fracture in her left foot, which had to stop her season for 3 months from after Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, to when grass season kicked off.

It was he who, together with the American metallurgists from Boeing, was able to derive so much valuable information from the fatigue fracture and other features of the Lusaka Boeing 707's stabiliser.

Often however, fatigue fractures are easy to distinguish from overload failures by the lack of ductility, and the existence of a fast crack growth region and the slow crack growth area on the fracture surface.

March fracture, also known as fatigue fracture or stress fracture of metatarsal bone, is the fracture of the distal third of one of the metatarsals occurring because of recurrent stress.

The cause of the accident was attributed to the catastrophic failure of the Main Rotor Gearbox as a result of a fatigue fracture of a second stage planet gear in the epicyclic module.

Examination of the yellow blade spindle (S/N AJ19) revealed a fatigue fracture in the shank of the spindle adjacent to the shoulder in the inboard end of the shank.

Meanwhile Chris Protheroe, who spent much of the next few months at the massive Boeing plant in Seattle, was trying to discover the origin of the fatigue fracture of the stabilizer rear spar top chord.

After an investigation, the National Transportation Safety Board reported probable cause of the crash was "corrosion" and a "fatigue fracture" involving the left wing of the 67-year-old float-equipped Taylorcraft BF12 owned by Wiley.