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Success Story: Understanding Crack Growth – From Surface to Depth

A novel testing method reveals that “shallow” and “deep” cracks exhibit similar fatigue behavior. This makes available data from experiments with defects deeper than real-world defects, usable in lifetime predictions of application-relevant components.

Benefits for companies:

  • More reliable lifetime predictions for components
  • Use of existing fatigue data – reduced testing effort
  • Solutions even without standardized specimens
  • Better understanding of real defects for optimized materials


For industries such as aerospace, automotive, and advanced materials, this means more efficient development, improved safety, and a stronger competitive edge.

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