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elevensies on July 21, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: SpaceX CRS-7 Failure Investigation Teleconference ...

It should go back as long as the test stays below the yield point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield_(engineering) ... but there is also fatigue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatigue_(material) . This is just for raw material though, I'm not sure how it works on the connectors.

wiredfool on July 21, 2015 [–]

If you only do a few cycles under the yield point, fatigue isn't going to be an issue. If you ran 10^5 or more on a fatigue critical part, then I'd start to question it.

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