Issue 76

A. Huynh-Thai et alii, Fracture and Structural Integrity, 76 (2026) 99-116; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.76.07

Figure 6: Median and 99% predictive band for damping coefficient ( C α ) and tensile force ( N ). The posterior distribution of the global mean of cable-level intercepts ( μ a ) was shown (Fig. 7), the global mean intercept across cables; its center and width summarize the baseline level and its uncertainty, the posterior under N= a+b /C α is unimodal, roughly normal, centered near zero with slight left skew, indicating a stable global baseline and no multimodality; the width conveys uncertainty. The histogram from Fig. 7 shows the posterior distribution of the global mean of cable-level intercepts, μ a , in this model, with the highest frequency from 400 to 500 centered around zero, symmetrical and decreasing from -4000 to 4000. The distribution is dense at -2000 to 2000, low at the extremes. Tab. 6, a mean ranges from 86523172 N (C2102N) to 94988594 N (C2212N), a sd from 11973 N (C2102N) to 105965 N (C2215N), b mean is stable at 1429.65 N  Pa  s  . (CI99: 1284.89; 1687.51). Extreme values (-4000 ; 4000) are rare exceptions.

Figure 7: The posterior distribution of mean μ a for damping coefficient (C α ) and tensile force (N).

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