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Weibull Distribution Deconstructed
October 7, 2014 |Estimated reading time: Less than a minute
Indium, Dr. Ron Lasky, senior technologist at Indium Corporation, joins Guest Editor Susan Mucha to discuss the Weibull Distribution, an analytical tool for modeling the breaking strength of materials. Lasky points out the "curse of the early first fail" and the importance of long-term failure testing.