We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
WEIBULL ANALYSIS OF FATIGUE TEST DATA.
- Authors
Olsson, Karl-Erik
- Abstract
Many design engineering questions are extreme value problems. One example is product reliability. Products fail when weak items meet rough conditions. In other words, strength, the `left hand tail' of the strength distribution, is less than load, the `right hand tail' of the load distribution. Hence mean values are of less importance, focus must be on each relevant tail. Customers calling for higher reliability will strengthen this condition. An extreme value distribution describes one tail. Fatigue failures follow the `weakest link theory', which is an extreme value phenomenon. Load and strength are limited, generally one cannot get infinite load and quality control will screen out zero strength components. The appropriate choice is the three parameter Weibull distribution.
- Subjects
WEIBULL distribution; DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory); RELIABILITY in engineering; MAINTAINABILITY (Engineering); PROBABILITY theory; ENGINEERING
- Publication
Quality & Reliability Engineering International, 1994, Vol 10, Issue 5, p437
- ISSN
0748-8017
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/qre.4680100511