File this under 'That's not supposed to happen!'. In an experiment published in 2023, scientists observed a damaged section ...

Apparently not. Scientists on Wednesday described how pieces of pure platinum and copper spontaneously healed cracks caused by metal fatigue during nanoscale experiments that had been designed to ...

First it was self-healing polymers. Then it was self-healing concrete. Now we have self-healing metals. A team of scientists at the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico recently observed a ...

Chances are the paperclip will have broken before you finish. This is due to what's called metal fatigue, which occurs when a metal component is cyclically stressed until it fails. Take a wire ...

(Courtesy: J Stinville) The tiniest defects in a metal can cause it to fail, but predicting when this so-called metal fatigue will occur is difficult. Now, however, researchers in the US and France ...

A preliminary investigation of the fractured fan blade shows signs of damage consistent with metal fatigue. The signs: so-called beach marks or crack arrest marks that can often be seen with the ...

General manager Mike Maughan said a summer inspection of the lift revealed it is experiencing “accelerated metal fatigue” due to a unique feature of its alignment. Alta installed the lift in ...