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  3. Metal failure

Metal failure

  • Metal fracture
  • Metal fatigue

Incidence

Traces of metal fatigue found in a pressure wall of a jumbo jet that crashed in 1985, could have contributed to a rupture in the rear pressure bulkhead, the likely cause of the crash.

Broader

Failure of materials
Presentable

Narrower

Brittle fracture of metals
Yet to rate

Strategy

Using stronger metals
Yet to rate
Preventing metal fatigue
Yet to rate

Value

Fatigue
Yet to rate
Failure
Yet to rate

Reference

Kocanda, S: Fatigue Failure of Metals
Frost, N E, et al: Metal Fatigue
Gifkins, R C: Strength of Metals and Alloys (ICSMA 6) Proceedings of the 6th International Conference, Melbourne, Australia, August 16-20, 1982
Tanaka, T M and Komai, K: Current Research on Fatigue Cracks
Gurney, T R: Fatigue of Welded Structures

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(D) Detailed problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Fundamental sciences » Metallic elements and alloys
  • Societal problems » Accidents
  • Societal problems » Failure
  • Technology » Metallurgy
    • Content quality
    Unpresentable
     Unpresentable
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    D7215
    DOCID
    11472150
    D7NID
    157192
    Last update
    Oct 4, 2020