Characteristic strength and Weibull modulus of selected infrared-transmitting materials

Optical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 3151-3160

  Klein, Claude A ^a   Miller, Richard P ^b   Gentilman, Richard L ^c  

^a Northeastern University ^*  (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Materials Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Characteristic strength; Failure probability; Flexure testing; Infrared materials; Infrared windows; Weibull modulus

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE TESTING; LINEARIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TENSILE STRESS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

INFRARED MATERIALS;

OPTICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 0036983391     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1517578     Document Type: Article

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