These two images show Torsional fatigue failure of a splinded shaft. The refernece source URL for this failure is the Engineering Materials Group at Southampton University

On the left is a side view of the mating fracture surfaces. On the right is a side view of the fracture with one fracture-half removed. Do you see how multi-crack origins define the crack-plane?

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