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FATIGUE cracks have been seen to be initiated in slip bands, twin boundaries and grain boundaries, in a number of investigations on the fatigue behaviour of metals1–3.
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WILKINS, B., BADER, M. Initiation of Fatigue Cracks in Beta-Brass. Nature 189, 301 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/189301a0
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