Reliability Physics and Engineering provides critically important information that is needed for designing and building reliable cost-effective products.
Key features include:
• Materials/Device Degradation
• Degradation Kinetics
• Time-To-Failure Modeling
• Statistical Tools
• Failure-Rate Modeling
• Accelerated Testing
• Ramp-To-Failure Testing
• Important Failure Mechanisms for Integrated Circuits
• Important Failure Mechanisms for Mechanical Components
• Conversion of Dynamical Stresses into Static Equivalents
• Small Design Changes Producing Major Reliability Improvements
This textbook includes numerous example problems with solutions. Also, exercise problems along with answers are included at the end of each chapter.
Reliability Physics and Engineering can be a useful resource for students, engineers and materials scientists.
This book provides the basic reliability physics and engineering tools needed to build better products. It details how to develop better methodologies for producing reliable product designs and materials selections to improve product reliability.
All engineers could bene?t from at least one course in reliability physics and engineering. It is very likely that, starting with your very ?rst engineering po- tion, you will be asked — how long is your newly developed device expected to last? This text was designed to help you to answer this fundamentally important question. All materials and devices are expected to degrade with time, so it is very natural to ask — how long will the product last? The evidence for material/device degradation is apparently everywhere in nature. A fresh coating of paint on a house will eventually crack and peel. Doors in a new home can become stuck due to the shifting of the foundation. The new ?nish on an automobile will oxidize with time. The tight tolerances associated with ?nely meshed gears will deteriorate with time. Critical parameters associated with hi- precision semiconductor devices (threshold voltages, drive currents, interconnect resistances, capacitor leakages, etc.) will degrade with time. In order to und- stand the lifetime of the material/device, it is important to understand the reliability physics (kinetics) for each of the potential failure mechanisms and then be able to develop the required reliability engineering methods that can be used to prevent, or at least minimize the occurrence of, device failure. Provides basic Reliability Physics and Engineering tools for Electrical Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Materials Scientists, and Applied Physicists to build better products
Includes information for the development of better methodologies for producing reliable product designs and materials selections
Contains statistical training and tools within the text
Emphasizes the physics of failure and the development of reliability engineering models for failure