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Old 21st Mar 2017, 13:10
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The report will tell. Should not be too difficult to determine forensically. Fatigue initiated by corrosion pit, tooling mark, could be anything.
A common cause of fracture failure in a high-quality steel component is a fault in the heat-treatment process, that has led to a finished product that is outside the manufacturers specifications, and which has left the item excessively hardened, or not toughened enough.
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