System reliability based on diffusion models for fatigue crack growth

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 46-57

  Ebrahimi, Nader ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brownian method; Diffusion process; Fatigue crack; Maximum likelihood method; NBU t o; Survival function; Transition density

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN METHOD; DIFFUSION PROCESS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; SURVIVAL FUNCTION; TRANSITION DENSITY;

CRACKS; DIFFUSION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SYSTEM STABILITY;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 13144283701     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nav.20050     Document Type: Article

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