Thermodynamic degradation science : physics of failure, accelerated testing, fatigue and reliability applications

Content: Title Page
 Copyright
 Contents
 List of Figures
 List of Tables 
 About the Author 
 Preface
 Chapter 1 Equilibrium Thermodynamic Degradation Science 
 1.1 Introduction to a New Science
 1.2 Categorizing Physics of Failure Mechanisms
 1.3 Entropy Damage Concept
 1.3.1 The System (Device) and its Environment
 1.3.2 Irreversible Thermodynamic Processes Cause Damage
 1.4 Thermodynamic Work
 1.5 Thermodynamic State Variables and their Characteristics
 1.6 Thermodynamic Second Law in Terms of System Entropy Damage
 1.6.1 Thermodynamic Entropy Damage Axiom
 1.6.2 Entropy and Free Energy 1.7 Work, Resistance, Generated Entropy, and the Second Law1.8 Thermodynamic Catastrophic and Parametric Failure
 1.8.1 Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium Aging States in Terms of the Free Energy or Entropy Change
 1.9 Repair Entropy
 1.9.1 Example 1.1: Repair Entropy: Relating Non-Damage Entropy Flow to Entropy Damage
 Summary 
 References
 Chapter 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 2.1.1 Example 2.1: Minerś Rule Derivation2.1.2 Example 2.2: Minerś Rule Example
 2.1.3 Non-Cyclic Applications of Cumulative Damage
 2.2 Measuring Entropy Damage Processes
 2.3 Intermediate Thermodynamic Aging States and Sampling
 2.4 Measures for System-Level Entropy Damage
 2.4.1 Measuring System Entropy Damage with Temperature
 2.4.2 Example 2.3: Resistor Aging
 2.4.3 Example 2.4: Complex Resistor Bank
 2.4.4 System Entropy Damage with Temperature Observations
 2.4.5 Example 2.5: Temperature Aging of an Operating System 2.4.6 Comment on High-Temperature Aging for Operating and Non-Operating Systems2.5 Measuring Randomness due to System Entropy Damage with Mesoscopic Noise Analysis in an Operating System
 2.5.1 Example 2.6: Gaussian Noise Vibration Damage
 2.5.2 Example 2.7: System Vibration Damage Observed with Noise Analysis
 2.6 How System Entropy Damage Leads to Random Processes
 2.6.1 Stationary versus Non-Stationary Entropy Process
 2.7 Example 2.8: Human Heart Rate Noise Degradation
 2.8 Entropy Damage Noise Assessment Using Autocorrelation and the Power Spectral Density 2.8.1 Noise Measurements Rules of Thumb for the PSD and R2.8.2 Literature Review of Traditional Noise Measurement
 2.8.3 Literature Review for Resistor Noise
 2.9 Noise Detection Measurement System
 2.9.1 System Noise Temperature
 2.9.2 Environmental Noise Due to Pollution
 2.9.3 Measuring System Entropy Damage using Failure Rate
 2.10 Entropy Maximize Principle: Combined First and Second Law
 2.10.1 Example 2.9: Thermal Equilibrium
 2.10.2 Example 2.10: Equilibrium with Charge Exchange
 2.10.3 Example 2.11: Diffusion Equilibrium
 2.10.4 Example 2.12: Available Work