What is meant by fatigue?

What is meant by fatigue? Correct Answer The tendency of a metal to fracture under repeated cyclic loading

Fatigue is defined as the tendency of a metal to fracture under repeated cyclic loading. Bridges, machines will usually fail due to fatigue. It fails the metals even below the yield stress of that metal due to repeated cyclic loading.

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