Citation

Brückner A, Häberer R, Munz D. Reliab. Eng. 1985; 11(4): 191-202.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1985, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0143-8174(85)90030-7

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Starting from simulated histograms of typical crack size distributions the difficulties in attributing a unique distribution function to a specific histogram are investigated. A curve-fitting procedure, which can be employed for the calculation of failure probabilities in probabilistic fracture mechanics, is established.