Reliability confidence intervals for ceramic components as obtained from bootstrap methods and neural networks

Computational Materials Science

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-13

  Heiermann, K ^a   Riesch Oppermann, H ^a   Huber, N ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ceramics; Confidence bounds; Failure probability; Neural networks; Non parametric bootstrap; Reliability; Resampling methods; Stochastic inference

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FRACTURE MECHANICS; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RELIABILITY; STRESSES;

CONFIDENCE BOUNDS; FAILURE PROBABILITY; NON-PARAMETERIC BOOTSTRAP; RESAMPLING METHODS; STOCHASTIC INFERENCE;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

EID: 17444426298     PISSN: 09270256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2004.10.002     Document Type: Article

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