ALBANY, NY — the global nondestructive testing equipment market was valued at $3.21 billion in 2014, growing at a CAGR of 5.8 percent from 2015 to 2021 to account for $4.78 billion in 2021.

We are all acquainted with the various ways that materials break when they are loaded past their limit: the brittle snap of a plastic part or the tearing of a pop top tab are the familiar results of a large overload.

Since the beginning of human aviation history, failures caused by engineering fatigue have been a common cause of structural failures.