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1) What causes fatigue? Movement of grain boundaries. Sapphire is a single crystal material with no grain boundaries. It has two states under tension, not moving, or moving catastrophically (break point). The only thing close to fatique is if it has strain due to grinding or thermal processing.
2) Unfortunately, we have not the machines which could cut the sapphire using Gaussian function.