Flexural strength of infrared-transmitting window materials: Bimodal Weibull statistical analysis

Optical Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Klein, Claude A ^a  

^a Cak Analytics   (United States)

Author keywords

bimodal distribution; failure probability; flexural strength; infrared properties; Weibull statistics; window materials

Indexed keywords

BIMODAL DISTRIBUTION; FAILURE PROBABILITY; INFRARED PROPERTIES; WEIBULL STATISTICS; WINDOW MATERIALS;

BENDING STRENGTH; CHARACTERIZATION; FRACTURE; FRACTURE TESTING; MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SILICON COMPOUNDS; STRESS ANALYSIS; ZINC SULFIDE;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 81755161242     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3541804     Document Type: Article

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