Fracture statistics of brittle materials: Weibull or normal distribution

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2002, Pages

  Lu, Chunsheng ^a,b   Danzer, Robert ^a   Fischer, Franz Dieter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLENESS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SILICON CARBIDE; SILICON NITRIDE; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTIONS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; WEAKEST-LINK PRINCIPLE; WEIBULL MODULUS;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 37649031780     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.65.067102     Document Type: Article

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