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  <dc:title>Fatigue Crack Growth in Reliability</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package FCGR version 1.2-0</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Fatigue Crack Growth in Reliability estimates the distribution of material 
             lifetime due to mechanical fatigue efforts. The 'FCGR' package provides 
             simultaneous crack growth curves fitting to different specimens in materials 
             under mechanical stress efforts. Linear mixed-effects models with 
             smoothing B-Splines and the linearized Paris-Erdogan law are applied. 
             Once defined the fail for a determined crack length, the distribution 
             function of failure times to fatigue is obtained. The density function is 
             estimated by applying nonparametric binned kernel density estimate ('bkde') 
             and the kernel estimator of the distribution function ('kde'). The results 
             of Pinheiro and Bates method based on nonlinear mixed-effects regression 
             ('nlme') can be also retrieved. The package contains the crack.growth(), PLOT.cg(), 
             IB.F(), and Alea.A (database) functions.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 4.5.0), kerdiest, KernSmooth, nlme, parallel</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: MASS, mgcv, pspline, sfsmisc</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Antonio Meneses &lt;antoniomenesesfreire@hotmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Antonio Meneses [aut, cre],
  Salvador Naya [ctb],
  Javier Tarrio-Saavedra [ctb],
  Ignacio Lopez-Ullibarri [ctb]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 2)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-09-28</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=FCGR</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.FCGR</dc:identifier>
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