Overview of New Terms, Equations, and Concepts
Key Words
Degradation, aging, thermodynamics, physics of failure, accelerated testing, reliability, thermodynamic work, entropy, entropy damage, free energy, fatigue, conjugate work, fatigue damage spectrum, noise analysis, noise damage, white noise, corrosion, cyclic work, Miner’s Rule, heat engine damage, negative entropy, spontaneous negative entropy, human aging, environmental profiling, transistor aging, thermal cycle, shock and vibration, log time aging, complex systems degradation, acceleration factors, wear, creep, diffusion, aging law influence on reliability distributions, CAST goals.
New Terms, Equations, and Concepts
This book offers a lot of new work. We provide here a list for the reader.
Unique Terms
Entropy damage, entropy damage threshold, spontaneous negative entropy, repair entropy, cumulative accelerated stress test (CAST) equations and goals
Unique Equations
2.2, 2.10, 2.14, 2.23, 2.24, 2.36, 2.42, 2.124, 2.128, 3.21, 3.25, 3.31, 4.15, 4.16, 4.19, 4.22, 4.23, 4.26, 4.29, 4.30, 4.33, 4.47, 5.3, 5.4, 5.6, 5.7, 5.10, 5.11, 6.7, 6.8, 6.15, 7.7, 7.8, 7.15, 7.16, 7.20, 7.24, 7.25, 7.31, 7.36, 7.37, 8.17, 8.18, 8.21, 8.22, 9.15, 9.26, C.7–C.10, C.16–C.20.
Please see also Table 1.5, Table 4.3, Miner’s rule derivations, and acceleration factor equations.
Unique Concepts
Second law phrasings in terms of degradation, four main categories of aging, thermodynamic aging state, thermodynamic reliability, entropy noise principle, system entropy random process postulate, mesoscopic noise entropy measurements, system undergoing parametric degradation will have its noise level increased, environmental noise, physical implication of log time aging connected to the lognormal distribution (Equation (9.8)), physical implication of power law aging connected to Weibull β (Equation (9.26)), environmental profiling, CAST (cumulative accelerated stress test) goals and equations, human engine, Figure C.1, RC repair model.
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