NEW YORK (WABC) -- NTSB investigators are trying to figure out why a piece of an engine tore off during a Southwest Airlines flight that took off from LaGuardia, and broke the window of the Boeing 737 ...

Fatigue due to repetitive strain is the leading cause of failure in metal components and structures, but new research shows how crystalline structures called nanotwins can slow the accumulation of ...

Boeing provided new details Tuesday about the rupture that tore a hole in the roof of a Southwest Airlines 737-300 last Friday, and said it’s confident there is no similar problem on the 737-Next ...

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Material Technologies Inc. has many of the hallmarks of a startup. The Los Angeles-based company has technology that it claims will revolutionize its industry in this case the critical process of ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- Take a wire paperclip. Now, bend it back and forth in the same spot 15, maybe 20 times. Chances are the paperclip will have broken before you finish. This is due to what's ...

Take a wire paperclip. Now, bend it back and forth in the same spot 15, maybe 20 times. Chances are the paperclip will have broken before you finish. This is due to what’s called metal fatigue, which ...

The National Transportation Safety Board will likely take more than a year to determine what caused the catastrophic failure of an engine on Southwest Flight 1380, rupturing the cabin and killing a ...

A typical microstructure (grain structure at the micron scale) of metallic material. (Courtesy: J Stinville) The tiniest defects in a metal can cause it to fail, but predicting when this so-called ...

Metal alloys crack and fail through a mechanism called "fatigue" when repeatedly loaded and strained. While it is well known ...