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fatigue life

American  

noun

  1. the number of applications of a given stress to which a sample of metal can be subjected before failing.


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His brother, Michael Isaacman, told Forbes that the businessman is “a big believer that we all have a limited fatigue life, so let’s do the most amazing things that we can while we’re alive”.

From BBC

“Structural analysis predicted” that the root rib will have “less than the desired fatigue life,” Pentagon Director of Operational Test and Evaluation Michael Gilmore said in an e- mail statement.

From BusinessWeek