Reliability Physics and Engineering - Time-To-Failure Modeling

"Reliability Physics and Engineering" provides critically important information for designing and building reliable cost-effective products. The textbook contains numerous example problems with solutions. Included at the end of each chapter are exercise problems and answers. "Reliability Physics and Engineering" is a useful resource for students, engineers, and materials scientists.

List of contents

Introduction.- Materials and Device Degradation.- From Material/Device Degradation to Time-To-Failure.- Time-To-Failure Modeling.- Gaussian Statistics - An Overview.- Time-To-Failure Statistics.- Failure Rate Modeling.- Accelerated Degradation.- Acceleration Factor Modeling.- Ramp-To-Failure Testing.- Time-To-Failure Models for Selected Failure Mechanisms in Integrated Circuits Breakdown (TDDB).- Time-To-Failure Models for Selected Failure Mechanisms In Mechanical Engineering.- Conversion of Dynamical Stresses Into Effective Static Values.- Increasing the Reliability of Device/Product Designs.- Screening.- Heat Generation and Dissipation.- Sampling Plans and Confidence Intervals.- Appendix A: Useful Conversion Factors.- Appendix B: Useful Physical Constants.- Appendix C: Useful Rough Rules-Of-Thumb.- Appendix D: Useful Mathematical Expressions.- Appendix E: Useful Differentials and Definite Integrals.- Appendix F: Free-Energy.- Appendix G: t(1- /2,ni) Distribution Values.- Appendix H: 2(P,ni) Distribution Values.- Index.

About the author

Dr. J.W. McPherson is at McPherson Reliability Consulting, LLC.

Summary

"Reliability Physics and Engineering" provides critically important information for designing and building reliable cost-effective products. The textbook contains numerous example problems with solutions. Included at the end of each chapter are exercise problems and answers. "Reliability Physics and Engineering" is a useful resource for students, engineers, and materials scientists.

Product details

• Authors: J W McPherson, J. W. McPherson
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9783319033297
• ISBN: 978-3-31-903329-7
• No. of pages: 399
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 254 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 649 g
• Illustrations: XVI, 399 p.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; B, Statistics, ENERGY, engineering, Energy technology & engineering, quality control, Industrial and Production Engineering, Statistical Theory and Methods, reliability, Electronics, Microelectronics, Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation, Probability & statistics, Electrical Power Engineering, Industrial safety, Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk, Reliability engineering, Energy, general, Energy technology and engineering