A statistical approach for transferring fracture events across different sample shapes

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-59

  Rosahl, K ^a   Booker, J D ^a   Lewis, S ^a   Smith, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cleavage fracture; Failure probability; Local approach; Weibull stress

Indexed keywords

BEREMIN MODEL; CALIBRATION METHOD; CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; CLEAVAGE FRACTURE; FAILURE PROBABILITY; FRACTURE DATA; FRACTURE LOAD; LOCAL APPROACHES; LOW TEMPERATURES; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; SAMPLE SHAPE; STATISTICAL APPROACH; TEST TEMPERATURES; WEIBULL MODULUS; WEIBULL STRESS;

BRITTLE FRACTURE; CALIBRATION; FERRITE; FERRITIC STEEL; PROBABILITY; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 78650285086     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2010.10.002     Document Type: Article

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