Unbiased estimation of Weibull parameters with the linear regression method

Journal of the European Ceramic Society

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1099-1105

  Wu, Dongfang ^a   Zhou, Jiancheng ^a   Li, Yongdan ^b  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Failure analysis; Fracture; Mechanical properties; Strength; Weibull statistics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

PROBABILITY ESTIMATOR; WEIBULL PARAMETERS;

BRITTLENESS;

BRITTLENESS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 31744434993     PISSN: 09552219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2005.01.044     Document Type: Article

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