“…Despite the relative simplicity and eectiveness of the Beremin model and its extensions (see, e.g., the representative works of Gao et al [36], Gao and Dodds [37,38], Petti and Dodds [39,12], Ruggieri [40,41], R&D [23,2] and Jivkov et al [42]), a potential drawback with this approach is that the parameters dening Eq. (3), particularly the Weibull modulus, m (the scale parameter, σ u , follows directly from the σ w -value corresponding to P f = 63.2 % in Eq.…”