Estimating fatigue curves with the random fatigue-limit model

Technometrics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 277-289

  Pascual, Francis G ^a   Meeker, William Q ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Akaike information criterion; Fatigue data; Maximum likelihood methods; Probability (P P) plots; Random fatigue limit; Right censoring

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; RESIDUAL STRESSES; STRESS ANALYSIS;

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; FATIGUE CURVES; RANDOM FATIGUE LIMIT MODEL;

FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

EID: 0033276890     PISSN: 00401706     EISSN: 15372723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00401706.1999.10485925     Document Type: Article

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