Predicting crack locations in metals (IMAGE)

Johns Hopkins University

Predicting crack locations in metals

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This is a NTSB photograph of a cracked metal disk from an airline engine caused by the type of metal fatigue that the new method would be able to predict long before a crack ever appears.

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NTSB

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