The scaling of structural response of concrete structures to large structure sizes, to long
service lives and to tolerable failure probabilities is a problem of order-of-magnitude …

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF RELIABILITY DATA Page 1 Page 2 STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF
RELIABILITY DATA Page 3 Page 4 CHAPMAN & HALL/CRC Texts in Statistical Science Series …

When carbon fibre is combined with less-stiff higher-elongation glass fibre in a hybrid
composite an enhancement of the failure strain of the carbon fibre reinforced phase is …

The objective in materials or structure design has been to maximize the mean strength.
However, as generally agreed, engineering structures, such as bridges, aircraft or …

Analytical results are discussed for the chain-of-bundles probability model for the strength of
fibrous materials. Two load sharing rules are considered for failed and nonfailed fibers in a …

Engineering structures must be designed for an extremely low failure probability such as
10− 6, which is beyond the means of direct verification by histogram testing. This is not a …

The statistical aspects of the failure of large 3-D unidirectional fiber reinforced composites
are studied numerically and analytically. A 3-D lattice Green's function model is used to …

Between 1964 and 1980 most micromechanical analyses of composite strength have been
based on the chain-of-bundles model. The present in vestigation abandons this model and …

A sequence of convergent upper bounds is developed for the probability distribution of
strength of composite materials. The analysis is based on the well-known chain-of-bundles …

In this paper we compare three distinct asymptotic analyses for the probability distribution for
strength of a certain class of fibrous materials. This class, which contains composite …