Fracture statistics of dental ceramics: Discrimination of strength distributions

The Weibull distribution is the most widely used function in the reliability analysis and structural design of dental ceramics; however, it is still unclear whether Weibull distribution is always the most suitable one. With wide applications of dental ceramics, a special attention has been paid in d...

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Main Authors: Nohut, S., Lu, Chunsheng
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier Science Ltd 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/23767
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Lu, Chunsheng
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description The Weibull distribution is the most widely used function in the reliability analysis and structural design of dental ceramics; however, it is still unclear whether Weibull distribution is always the most suitable one. With wide applications of dental ceramics, a special attention has been paid in discriminating their strength distributions. In this paper, three versatile functions, involving normal, log-normal and Weibull distributions, are applied to the analysis of ten strength data sets of dental ceramics with different compositions and the results are compared in terms of the Akaike information criterion and the Anderson-Darling test. It reveals that various microstructures and compositions in the investigated dental ceramics cause their strength distributions deviated from the Weibull distribution. The influence of microstructure induced fracture properties (multiple-modal flaw size distribution, R-curve behavior and subcritical crack growth) on strength distributions is discussed.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-237672017-09-13T15:59:55Z Fracture statistics of dental ceramics: Discrimination of strength distributions Nohut, S. Lu, Chunsheng The Weibull distribution is the most widely used function in the reliability analysis and structural design of dental ceramics; however, it is still unclear whether Weibull distribution is always the most suitable one. With wide applications of dental ceramics, a special attention has been paid in discriminating their strength distributions. In this paper, three versatile functions, involving normal, log-normal and Weibull distributions, are applied to the analysis of ten strength data sets of dental ceramics with different compositions and the results are compared in terms of the Akaike information criterion and the Anderson-Darling test. It reveals that various microstructures and compositions in the investigated dental ceramics cause their strength distributions deviated from the Weibull distribution. The influence of microstructure induced fracture properties (multiple-modal flaw size distribution, R-curve behavior and subcritical crack growth) on strength distributions is discussed. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/23767 10.1016/j.ceramint.2012.02.093 Elsevier Science Ltd fulltext
spellingShingle Nohut, S.
Lu, Chunsheng
Fracture statistics of dental ceramics: Discrimination of strength distributions
title Fracture statistics of dental ceramics: Discrimination of strength distributions
title_full Fracture statistics of dental ceramics: Discrimination of strength distributions
title_fullStr Fracture statistics of dental ceramics: Discrimination of strength distributions
title_full_unstemmed Fracture statistics of dental ceramics: Discrimination of strength distributions
title_short Fracture statistics of dental ceramics: Discrimination of strength distributions
title_sort fracture statistics of dental ceramics: discrimination of strength distributions
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/23767