Explicit expressions for the mean nominal strength

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 75, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 4626-4629

  Nadarajah, Saralees ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gaussian distribution; Gumbel distribution; Lauricella function of type A; Mean nominal strength; Represented volume elements; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

ELSEVIER (CO); EXPLICIT EXPRESSIONS; GENERAL EXPRESSIONS; STRENGTH (IGC: D5/D6);

EID: 47549086102     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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