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dry fatigue
A condition often appearing in wire rope and often caused by shock loads in winding. These shock loads are produced by picking up the cage from the pit bottom with slack chains or by lifting heavy pithead gates or covers.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Mining
- Category: General mining; Mineral mining
- Government Agency: USBM
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