Old 01-11-13 | 05:59 PM
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Originally Posted by davidad
With steel as long as it is not pushed past it's yield point and there are no stress risers it will not break because of fatigue.
That's not quite accurate. The "fatigue threshold stress" below which steel (or titanium) will tolerate infinite stress cycles is well below the yield point.
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