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- Title
Characteristic strength, Weibull modulus, and failure probability of fused silica glass.
- Authors
Claude A. Klein
- Abstract
The development of high-energy lasers has focused attention on the requirement to assess the mechanical strength of optical components made of fused silica or fused quartz (SiO2). The strength of this material is known to be highly dependent on the stressed area and the surface finish, but has not yet been properly characterized in the published literature. Recently, Detrio and collaborators at the University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI) performed extensive ring-on-ring flexural strength measurements on fused SiO2specimens ranging in size from 1 to 9 in.in diameter and of widely differing surface qualities. We report on a Weibull statistical analysis of the UDRI data—an analysis based on the procedure outlined in Proc. SPIE 4375, 241 (2001). We demonstrate that (1) a two-parameter Weibull model, including the area-scaling principle, applies; (2) the shape parameter (m10)is essentially independent of the stressed area as well as the surface finish; and (3) the characteristic strength (1-cm2uniformly stressed area) obeys a linear law, C(in megapascals) 160−2.83×PBS(in parts per million per steradian), where PBScharacterizes the surface/subsurface “damage” of an appropriate set of test specimens. In this light, we evaluate the cumulative failure probability and the failure probability density of polished and superpolished fused SiO2windows as a function of the biaxial tensile stress, for stressed areas ranging from 0.3 to 100 cm2.
- Subjects
WEIBULL distribution; FUSED silica; LIBYAN Desert glass; MATHEMATICAL models; OPTICAL computers; LITERATURE reviews; RESEARCH institutes
- Publication
Optical Engineering, 2009, Vol 48, Issue 11, p113401
- ISSN
0091-3286
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1117/1.3265716