Endurance Limit
endurance limit
[in′du̇r·əns ‚lim·ət] (mechanics)
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endurance limit
In fatigue testing, the maximum stress which can be applied to a material for an infinite number of stress cycles without resulting in failure of the material.
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Endurance Limit
the highest value of the stress amplitudes in a symmetrical cycle of mechanical load variation, or the maximum stress of an asymmetrical cycle, to which a material can be subjected for an unlimited number of cycles without failure. The value of the amplitude or the maximum stress in a cycle that, when repeated for a specific number of cycles, causes fatigue failure or produces macroscopic cracks is called the fatigue strength.
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