Which outcome arises as a pressure vessel undergoes thermal cycling?

💡 Explanation

Repeated heating and cooling during thermal cycling causes cyclic stress. Progressive fatigue crack propagation results because minuscule cracks grow via the cyclic stress via fatigue mechanism, therefore leading to eventual failure, rather than any changes in material properties at the macroscopic level.

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