Experimental determination of a more powerful burn-in
Abstract
A method is described in which burn-in is made more powerful by reducing the time spent in the high temperature extreme, thereby precipitating more failures for a given period. The AN/ARC-164 transceiver for airborne communications is used as the subject of failure tests under conditions of both 2 hour nonoperating cold soak/2 hour operating heat soak, and 2 hour nonoperating cold soak/4 hour operating heat soak. A Production Reliability Verification Test (PRVT) indicated that the results obtained by the two sequences are fully comparable.
- Publication:
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IEEE Transactions on Reliability
- Pub Date:
- August 1978
- Bibcode:
- 1978ITR....27..181C
- Keywords:
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- Aircraft Communication;
- Avionics;
- Burnthrough (Failure);
- Electronic Equipment Tests;
- Reliability Analysis;
- Ultrahigh Frequencies;
- Accelerated Life Tests;
- Circuit Reliability;
- Failure Analysis;
- High Temperature Tests;
- Thermal Cycling Tests;
- Time Dependence;
- Transmitter Receivers;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering