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Mental fatigue is mainly caused by time-on-task and cognitive load. In the aviation mental type and sleepiness have been mentioned as the most important form of fatigue. This type of fatigue may ...

High-cycle fatigue refers to relatively low stress loads acting on a mechanical component that leads to fatigue failure over millions of load cycles.

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Learn how to improve the fatigue life of your aircraft designs with methods and principles such as load spectrum, material selection, stress analysis, and more.

The full-scale fatigue test simulates the aircraft’s design service through the application of repeated structural loading on the assembled airframe.