Size effect upon grained materials tensile strength: The increase of the statistical dispersion at the smaller scales

Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 192-199

  Carpinteri, Alberto ^a   Cornetti, P ^a   Puzzi, S ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Grained materials; Multifractal scaling; Size scale effect; Statistics of extremes; Stereology; Truncated distributions

Indexed keywords

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

GRAINED MATERIALS; MULTIFRACTAL SCALING; SIZE SCALE EFFECT; STEREOLOGY; TRUNCATED DISTRIBUTIONS;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 26844579708     PISSN: 01678442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tafmec.2005.06.008     Document Type: Article

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