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Metal Fatigue Revealed by New X-Ray Microbeam

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GAITHERSBURG, Md., Aug. 10, 2006 -- Intense x-ray microbeams -- 100 times thinner than a human hair -- probing a piece of distressed metal have revealed previously unknown variations in stresses, a result that could have implications for solving problems in sheet metal forming and controlling metal fatigue, responsible for the failure of many structural materials.  Answering the question of what happens to metals under stress and strain hasn't been as easy as one might think. A research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Southern...Read full article

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    Published: August 2006
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    lattice
    A regular spatial display of points representing, for example, the sites of atoms in a crystal.
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