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Automotive

Dealing with vehicles or machines used for travel or motion, especially cars.

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customer specification

Automotive; Auto engine

Exact statement of the particular needs to be satisfied, or essential characteristics that a customer requires (in a good, material, method, process, service, system, or work) and ...

fatigue behavior

Automotive; Auto engine

The change in residual strength, life, and stiffness during cyclic (or otherwise variable) load histories of homogenous materials, especially metals.

fatigue mode

Automotive; Auto engine

The progressive and localized structural damage that occurs when a material is subjected to cyclic loading.

maraging steel

Automotive; Auto engine

Iron alloy which is known for possessing superior strength and toughness without losing malleability, although they cannot hold a good cutting edge.

ring fatigue crack initiation

Automotive; Auto engine

Start of fractures that may be caused by surface scratches due to handling, or tooling of the material; threads ( as in a screw or bolt); slip bands or dislocations intersecting ...

titanium nitride inclusion

Automotive; Auto engine

An extremely hard, inert, thin film coating resulting from chemical reactions, physical effects, and contamination during a melting process.

failure mechanism

Automotive; Auto engine

The basic material behavior that led to dysfunction, including ductile fracture, brittle fracture, fatigue fracture, corrosion, erosion, wear, and distortion.