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Aiming to find the causes of failure, visual inspection and morphology of the fracture were performed, complemented with mechanical tests of hardness on the stress concentration area, in addition to validating the results by applying the finite element method, using ANSYS Mechanical Static Structural Software. It was concluded that the fatigue crack initiated on the surface of BUR due to work hardening continued growing up over the fatigued material, creating beach marks, and finally, a fracture occurred in the main radius of BUR due to stress concentration. 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