Equation 27 · Part 6 · Why Materials Fail: Fracture, Flaws and the Inspection Interval
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What this part means
The expressions on both sides represent the same quantity under the stated assumptions.
Its job in the formula
The equals sign connects the complete expression on the left with the complete expression on the right. Both sides must have compatible units.
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The passage around this formula
If the strength of a brittle body is set by its largest flaw, and flaw populations are random, then strength is a random variable and reporting a mean is an error of category. The standard treatment is the Weibull weakest-link model, in which the probability that a body of volume V survives a uniform stress is . with m the Weibull modulus and a scale parameter. A larger m means tighter scatter. A review of Weibull analysis across ceramics reports moduli of roughly 10 or below for many advanced ceramics such as alumina, hydroxyapatite and silicon carbide, below about 7 for the glass-ceramics and zirconias surveyed, and above 40 for one magnesium-based glass,…
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An equals sign says that the expression on its left and the expression on its right have the same value under the stated definitions and assumptions.
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