Burn-In Testing: Its Quantification and Optimization

By Feng-Bin Sun

Burn-In Testing: Its Quantification and Optimization

Ideal for practicing engineers in the fields of reliability, life testing, and product assurance, this text emphasizes mathematical and statistical models for quantifying the failure process, optimizing component reliability and minimizing the total cost.

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Burn-In Testing-Its Quantification and Optimization

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Burn-in Definitions, Classifications, Documents and Test Conditions

Chapter 3: Frequently Encountered Terminologies and Acronyms in Burn-In Testing

Chapter 4: Phenomenological Observations and the Physical Insight of the Failure Process During Burn-In

Chapter 5: Math Models Describing the Failure Process During Burn-in and Their Parameters' Estimation

Chapter 6: Burn-In Time Determination Using a Quick Calculation Approach

Chapter 7: Burn-in Time Determination Based on the Bimodal Times-to-failure Distribution

Chapter 8: Mean Residual Life (MRL) Concept and Its Applications to Burn-In Time Determination

Chapter 9: Burn-in Time Determination for the Minimum Cost

Chapter 10: Burn-in Quantification and Optimization Using the Bimodal Mixed-Exponential Life Distribution

Chapter 11: The Total-Time-on-Test (TTT) Transform and Its Application to Burn-in Time Determination

11.2: THE TTT TRANSFORMS, THE SCALED TTT TRANSFORMS AND THE SCALED TTT PLOTS

11.3: GEOMETRICAL PROPERTIES OF THE SCALED TTT TRANSFORMS

11.4: THE SCALED TTT TRANSFORMS OF SOME FREQUENTLY USED LIFE DISTRIBUTIONS

11.5: SCALED TTT PLOTS FOR COMPLETE AND INCOMPLETE LIFE DATA

11.6: DESIRED STRUCTURE OF THE OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS TO BE OPTIMIZED USING THE TTT TRANSFORM AND THE GRAPHICAL OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURE

11.7: OPTIMUM BURN-IN TIME DETERMINATION USING THE TTT TRANSFORM FOR THE MINIMUM COST OR FOR THE MAXIMUM PROFIT

11.8: OPTIMUM BURN-IN TIME DETERMINATION USING THE TTT TRANSFORM FOR THE MAXIMUM POST-BURN-IN MEAN RESIDUAL LIFE (MRL)

11.9: BURN-IN TIME DETERMINATION DIRECTLY FROM A SAMPLE OF OBSERVED TIMES TO FAILURE

REFERENCES

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES

Chapter 12: Accelerated Burn-in Testing and Burn-in Time Reduction Algorithms

Chapter 13: Accelerated Burn-in Using Temperature Cycling

Chapter 14: Guidelines for Burn-In Quantification and Optimum Burn-In Time Determination

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