Statistical Aspects of Fracture Problems
- 1 February 1948
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 19 (2) , 140-147
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1698380
Abstract
In recent years there has been an increasing interest in the development of statistical theories of strength. A main aim of these theories is to explain in a reasonable way such things as the dependence of the strength of specimens on their volume or length. In this paper it is pointed out that the problems posed by these models are equivalent to an important problem in mathematical statistics, namely, the distribution of the smallest value in samples of size n drawn from a population having some probability density functionf(x). The calculations made by mathematical statisticians give a far more complete description of the results to be expected than do the estimates to be found up to now in the technical literature.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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