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The data also suggest that the cantilever beam test can generate an artificially high threshold when the time under load is too short. If the test is terminated at 200 h rather than at 5000 h, the reported values from the cantilever beam test (Fig. 19) are four times higher than those measured after the longer time period. Similtirly, if insufficient time is allowed in the WOL test, the incubation period may not be exceeded, and no crack extension will be observed. 

Figure 6.34. Iron is a base metal with a negative standard reduction potential in the electrochemical series. Therefore, iron often forms the anode in corrosion cells and thus corrodes due to galvanic action. Iron structural elements that are exposed to moisture and air can decompose in a short time due to galvanic corrosion. The photo shows a major corrosion hole in a cantilevered beam from a balcony structure.

Fifth, when optical beam deflection is used to measure cantilever deflection, the sensitivity is inversely proportional to the length of the cantilever (see the following). If the length of the cantilever is on the order of 100 p,m, the length of the "optical lever" can be as short as 1 cm for subangstrom resolution with an inexpensive position-sensitive detector. 

Hu et al. [55] presented a review of recent studies on continuum models and MD simulations of CNT s vibrations briefly [61], Three constructed model of SWCNT consisting of Timoshenko s beam, Euler-Bemoulli s beam and MD simulations are investigated and results show that fundamental frequency decreases as the length of a SWCNT increases and also the Timoshenko s beam model provides a better prediction of short CNT s frequencies than that of Euler-Bemoulli beam s model. Comparing the fundamental frequency results of transverse vibrations of eantilevered SWCNTs it can be seen that both beam models are not able to predict the fundamental frequency of cantilevered SWCNTs shorter than 3.5 nm. 

An alternative approach, used by Turvey and Brooks (1996), involved bonding two small aluminium cantilevers normal to the web of the WF beam. Aluminium rods at the ends of the cantilevers extended for a short distance parallel to the web of the beam. These rods provided the lines of contact for long, PVC shoes placed over the ends of three extensometers (two vertical and one horizontal). Figure 13.18 shows an image of the cantilevers and the transducers with their PVC shoes. The two vertical transducers enabled the vertical deflection and the cross-section rotation to be determined and the horizontal transducer recorded the lateral translation of the beam directly. In later lateral buckling tests an electronic clinometer was also attached either to one of the beam s flanges or to its web to record the cross-section rotation directly. 

These requirements lead to the conclusion that AFM cantilevers should be small. Only short and thin cantilevers are soft, have a high sensitivity, and a high resonance frequency. Typical cantilevers are few 100 tm long, some 10 pm wide, and 0.5-3 pm thick. Resonance frequencies are in the range of 10-400 kHz in air. Especially in the field of single-molecule force spectroscopy, several researchers aim to make even smaller cantilevers with higher resonance frequency [211, 212]. The smallest cantilevers were 10 pm long, 0.1-0.3 pm thick, and 3-5 pm wide. Further size reduction would, however, make it more and more difficult to fabricate cantilevers and to focus the laser beam onto such small structures. 

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