Burn-In An Engineering Approach to the Design and Analysis of Burn-In Procedures

by Jensen, Finn; Petersen, Niels Erik

• ISBN13: 9780471102151
• ISBN10: 0471102156
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1991-01-08
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Introduces the benefits and techniques of performing burn-in on components, sub-assemblies, and complete systems. An engineering approach, this text emphasizes practical applications of reliability theory. Presents numerous real-life examples. Provides the fundamental information needed to design and analyze a meaningful and effective burn-in procedure.

Author Biography

About the authors— Finn Jensen is an independent consultant in reliability engineering. He received his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering in 1962 and his Ph.D. in 1970 from the Technical University of Denmark. He has been concerned with practical reliability engineering and research since the early 1970s, forming his own company in 1973. As reliability adviser he has conducted numerous reliability short courses in industry and has published and presented papers at many national and international conferences. Niels Erik Petersen graduated from the Engineering Academy of Denmark in 1976 and specializes in electromechanical engineering. Mr Petersen worked extensively on reliability problems, especially burn-in techniques, before taking up his present position as Development Engineer within a Danish company specializing in heavy industrial machinery.

Table of Contents

A Model For The Basic Time-to-Failure Pattern of Components.

The Biomodal Time-to-Failure Distribution of Systems.

Analysis of Component and System Failure Patterns.

Burn-In Procedures For Components or Systems Without Repair.

Burn-In Procedures For Systems With Repair.

Acceleration of Burn-In Tests.

Burn-In For Reliability and Economy.

Planning and Controlling Production Burn-In of Systems.

Bibliography.

Appendixes.

Index.