Flexural fracture strength, fracture locations, and Monte Carlo predictions for a silicon nitride by ten U.S. laboratories

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1177-1185

  Tennery, Victor J ^a   Breder, Kristin ^a   Ferber, Mattison K ^a   Jenkins, Michael G ^b  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING STRENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTURE MECHANICS; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

LINEAR REGRESSION; ONE WAY ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE;

SILICON NITRIDE;

EID: 0033746913     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.2000.tb01351.x     Document Type: Article

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