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. 2015 Jan 21;2:8–13. doi: 10.1016/j.bonr.2014.10.004

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Comparison of monotonic and fatigue loading. In monotonic loaded samples, force is increased until the sample fails. In fatigue, a repetitive sub-failure load is applied creating damage that eventually coalesces to cause failure.