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Fatigue and Fracture Laboratories

West Bethesda, MD

The Fatigue and Fracture Laboratories are an extensive facility for characterization of low-temperature fracture, dynamic fracture, low-cycle and high-cycle fatigue and fatigue crack growth properties. It consists of five major areas of equipment and instrumentation: computer-interactive servo-hydraulic fracture and fatigue test systems; high load, variable-stiffness computer-interactive fracture test systems; dynamic fracture servo-hydraulic test systems; dynamic fracture impact towers; and thick weldment low-cycle fatigue test systems.

Location

West Bethesda, Maryland

Approximate — state level, from the record’s listed location

From this record's listed location

Laboratory

  • NAVSEA Carderock

Category

  • Ship Hull Systems

Provenance

Original
https://dodtechmatch.com/dod/lab/viewfacility.aspx?id=70196

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