[TheForge] what about material fatigue?

[terry l. ridder]

Hello

while reading the bbc news i came upon this:

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Alloy bounces back 10 million times

Engineers produce a "shape memory alloy" that can pop back into shape
more than 10 million times, shattering previous records for this type of
material.

Read more: 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-32886000 
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most of the materials i have dealt with will fatigue after less than a
hundred deformations.

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terry l. ridder ><>