The Weibull Distribution density function is defined by where is the scale parameter, is the shape parameter, and is the location parameter. The Weibull probability distribution function is If , as is true for many cases, the density function reduces to the following: and the probability distribution function is The reduced density function, called a two-parameter Weibull distribution, is used in probabilistic fracture mechanics and fatigue. The two-parameter Weibull distribution is implemented in Optimization Process Composer. The mean value and standard deviation of the random variable with the two-parameter Weibull distribution are given as follows: and where is the well known gamma function when is an positive integer. The Weibull distribution can take different shapes, as shown in the figure below.
For example, this distribution is often used to describe the life of
capacitors and ball bearings. |