- Cover
- Title Page
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- About the Author
- Preface
- 1 Equilibrium Thermodynamic Degradation Science
- 1.1 Introduction to a New Science
- 1.2 Categorizing Physics of Failure Mechanisms
- 1.3 Entropy Damage Concept
- 1.4 Thermodynamic Work
- 1.5 Thermodynamic State Variables and their Characteristics
- 1.6 Thermodynamic Second Law in Terms of System Entropy Damage
- 1.7 Work, Resistance, Generated Entropy, and the Second Law
- 1.8 Thermodynamic Catastrophic and Parametric Failure
- 1.9 Repair Entropy
- References
- 2 Applications of Equilibrium Thermodynamic Degradation to Complex and Simple Systems: Entropy Damage, Vibration, Temperature, Noise Analysis, and Thermodynamic Potentials
- 2.1 Cumulative Entropy Damage Approach in Physics of Failure
- 2.2 Measuring Entropy Damage Processes
- 2.3 Intermediate Thermodynamic Aging States and Sampling
- 2.4 Measures for System-Level Entropy Damage
- 2.5 Measuring Randomness due to System Entropy Damage with Mesoscopic Noise Analysis in an Operating System
- 2.6 How System Entropy Damage Leads to Random Processes
- 2.7 Example 2.8: Human Heart Rate Noise Degradation
- 2.8 Entropy Damage Noise Assessment Using Autocorrelation and the Power Spectral Density
- 2.9 Noise Detection Measurement System
- 2.10 Entropy Maximize Principle: Combined First and Second Law
- 2.11 Thermodynamic Potentials and Energy States
- References
- 3 NE Thermodynamic Degradation Science Assessment Using the Work Concept
- 3.1 Equilibrium versus Non-Equilibrium Aging Approach
- 3.2 Application to Cyclic Work and Cumulative Damage
- 3.3 Cyclic Work Process, Heat Engines, and the Carnot Cycle
- 3.4 Example 3.1: Cyclic Engine Damage Quantified Using Efficiency
- 3.5 The Thermodynamic Damage Ratio Method for Tracking Degradation
- 3.6 Acceleration Factors from the Damage Ratio Principle
- References
- 4 Applications of NE Thermodynamic Degradation Science to Mechanical Systems
- 4.1 Thermodynamic Work Approach to Physics of Failure Problems
- 4.2 Example 4.1: Miner’s Rule
- 4.3 Assessing Thermodynamic Damage in Mechanical Systems
- 4.4 Cumulative Damage Accelerated Stress Test Goal: Environmental Profiling and Cumulative Accelerated Stress Test (CAST) Equations
- 4.5 Fatigue Damage Spectrum Analysis for Vibration Accelerated Testing
- References
- 5 Corrosion Applications in NE Thermodynamic Degradation
- 6 Thermal Activation Free Energy Approach
- 7 TAT Model Applications: Wear, Creep, and Transistor Aging
- 8 Diffusion
- 9 How Aging Laws Influence Parametric and Catastrophic Reliability Distributions
- 10 The Theory of Organization
- Special Topics A
- A.1 Introduction
- A.2 The Key Reliability Functions
- A.3 More Information on the Failure Rate
- A.4 The Bathtub Curve and Reliability Distributions
- A.5 Confidence Interval for Normal Parametric Analysis
- A.6 Central Limit Theorem and Cpk Analysis
- A.7 Catastrophic Analysis
- A.8 Reliability Objectives and Confidence Testing
- A.9 Comprehensive Accelerated Test Planning
- References
- Special Topics B
- B.1 Introduction
- B.2 Power Law Acceleration Factors
- B.3 Temperature–Humidity Life Test Model
- B.4 Temperature Cycle Testing
- B.5 Vibration Acceleration
- B.6 Multiple-Stress Accelerated Test Plans for Demonstrating Reliability
- B.7 Cumulative Accelerated Stress Test (CAST) Goals and Equations Usage in Environmental Profiling
- References
- Special Topics C
- Overview of New Terms, Equations, and Concepts
- Index
- End User License Agreement
THERMODYNAMIC DEGRADATION SCIENCE
PHYSICS OF FAILURE, ACCELERATED TESTING, FATIGUE, AND RELIABILITY APPLICATIONS
Alec Feinberg, Ph.D.
DfRSoftware Company, Raleigh, NC, USA
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