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Brown University

Fatigue Resistance

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Researchers performed fatigue tests on 5mm samples of nanotwinned copper (top image). Electron microscope images show that the microstructure of the material before the tests (images b and c) were preserved after 17,000 loading cycles (e and f). The results show that nanotwinned can be far more resistant to fatigue than standard metals

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Pan, et. al.

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