Fatigue rupture of wallaby tail tendons.
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Wallaby tail tendons fail after repeated application of stresses much lower than would be needed to break them in a single pull. We show that this a fatigue phenomenon, distinct from the creep rupture that occurs after prolonged application of a constant stress. The two phenomena are disctinguished by experiments in which tensile stress is cycled at different frequencies, ranging from 1 to 50 Hz.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Journal of experimental biology
دوره 198 Pt 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1995