The most consequential mechanical failures in transport aviation are often the ones which start as hairline cracks hidden ...

RAILWAY AGE, JUNE 2023 ISSUE: Welcome to “Timeout for Tech with Gary T. Fry, Ph.D., P.E.” Each month, we examine a technology topic about which professionals in the railway industry have asked to ...

A broken part from the UPS airplane that crashed and killed 15 people in Louisville in November was highlighted by Boeing in 2011 for experiencing failures on three different airplanes. The new ...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) reports that fatigue cracks were found in a UPS MD-11 cargo jet involved in a fatal crash in Kentucky. The cracks were in a support structure known as ...

The NTSB's preliminary investigation into UPS Flight 2976's crash is focusing on fatigue cracking found within the left engine pylon structure. Surveillance video shows the No. 1 engine and pylon ...

Fatigue crack growth in aluminium alloys, a phenomenon critical in the design and maintenance of modern aircraft structures, continues to present complex challenges for engineers and researchers alike ...

Railway axle reliability is paramount to ensuring the safe operation of modern trains. Recent studies have focussed on understanding fatigue behaviour and crack propagation mechanisms in axle ...

(a) Schematic illustration for our precise sectioning technique on the location of fatigue crack initiation; maximum stress and cycles to failure for (b) NAMP state; (c) HIP state; (d) HIP+STA state.

Studying fatigue cracks at the nanoscale: Sandia National Laboratories researcher Ryan Schoell uses a specialized transmission electron microscope technique developed by Khalid Hattar, Dan Bufford and ...

A research team at Drexel University's College of Engineering, led by Professors Ahmad R. Najafi, Jonathan Awerbuch, and Tein-Min Tan of mechanical engineering and mechanics, has developed a new way ...

Mechanical parts are more frequently subjected to cyclic loads than solely static loads. Fatigue issues are commonly observed in turbine blades, aerospace components, locomotive systems, large ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A fatigue crack in the Keystone Pipeline led to an oil spill in North Dakota earlier this year that released thousands of barrels of oil onto farmland, according to the pipeline ...