caa a22 4500 465740553 CHVBK 20180323111807.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00047061 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00047061 Neville D. Asea Brown Boveri Research Centre, CH-3405, Baden, Switzerland aut Application of a new statistical function for fracture toughness to failures at microracks in brittle materials [Elektronische Daten] [D. Neville] A new statistical distribution function for fracture toughness has been derived on the basis of the self-similar nature of the mechanical behaviour of crack-tip regions. It has been used to describe statistically variable fracture-toughness data well and to give a good prediction of the effect of the crack front length, that is of the specimen size. The present paper develops on this basis a statistical criterion for failure in linearly elastic materials containing distributions of many microcracks. Data from a number of materials tested in several different laboratories are presented, as are the results of statistical tests showing the quality of the fits obtained using the new function. Some bimodal data is considered. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1980 International Journal of Fracture Kluwer Academic Publishers 44/2(1990-07-01), 79-96 0376-9429 44:2<79 1990 44 10704 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00047061 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00047061 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Neville D. Asea Brown Boveri Research Centre, CH-3405, Baden, Switzerland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Fracture Kluwer Academic Publishers 44/2(1990-07-01), 79-96 0376-9429 44:2<79 1990 44 10704 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer