An approach for determining an appropriate assumed distribution of fatigue life under limited data

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-7

  Zhao, Y X ^a   Gao, Q ^a   Wang, J N ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Extreme maximum value distribution; Fatigue; Reliability analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002985941     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(99)00036-8     Document Type: Article

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