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RECENT experiments on annealed low-oxygen high-conductivity copper have shown that, under direct fatigue stresses, the structural changes revealed by back-reflexion X-ray photographs (cobalt Kα radiation; film-to-specimen distance, 10 cm.) are markedly dependent upon mean cyclical load.
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DAVIES, R. Structural Changes during the Fatigue of Copper. Nature 174, 980 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/174980a0
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