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Metal Fatigue (also known as Metal Conflict), is a futuristic science fiction, real-time strategy computer game developed by Zono Incorporated and published by Psygnosis (in Europe) and TalonSoft (a Take2 company in the United States).
Metal Fatigue is the third studio album by guitarist Allan Holdsworth, released in 1985 through Enigma Records (United States) and JMS–Cream Records (Europe).
Metal Fatigue is a 1996 science fiction novel by Sean Williams. It is set in a world after nuclear war where the metropolis of Kennedy in the United States has become walled off in order to protect itself from the decline of the rest the country.
Metal fatigue is the progressive and localized structural damage that occurs when a material is subjected to cyclic loadings.
Metal Fatigue may refer to:
- Metal Fatigue (album), a 1985 album by Allan Holdsworth.
- Metal Fatigue (novel), a 1996 science fiction novel by Sean Williams.
- Metal Fatigue (video game), a 2000 real-time strategy video game by Zono Incorporated.
Usage examples of "metal fatigue".
Friction, metal fatigue, overstress, whatever you want to call it, the port shaft froze solid about a hundred miles off Molokai.
Down in the engine room the chief engineer, August Burley, a powerfully built man with a portly stomach, walked the catwalk between the ship's big diesels, closely observing the needles on the rpm gauges, which were hard in the red, and listening for any signs of metal fatigue from the overstressed engines.
The aged Princess Dou Wan was tormented by metal fatigue, a scourge suffered by aircraft as well as ships.
Very occasionally he wondered if such stress symptoms were nonetheless there, but in a more insidious, invisible way, like the hairline cracks of metal fatigue in an aircraft.
She could and did keep from competing so accurately against him, pretending that she hadn't taken metal fatigue into consideration on that day's problem.
He admitted that: even to the best engineers, metal fatigue was an incalculable unknown.