Field Grading Composites Tailored by Electrophoresis—Part 3: Application to Power Electronics Modules Encapsulation

Prognostic Reliability Analysis of Power Electronics Modules

This paper describes a physics-of-failure (PoF) based prognostic method for power electronics modules (PEMs). Differing from the traditional reliability prediction methods, this approach allows the reliability performance of PEMs to be assessed in real time. Four techniques have been used to develop this method, they are: (1) Compact electro-thermal model (2) Rainflow counting algorithm (3) Com...

Design for reliability of power electronics modules

0026-2714/$ see front matter 2009 Published by doi:10.1016/j.microrel.2009.07.055 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +44 (0)20 8331 8660 E-mail address: [email protected] (C. Bailey). Power electronics uses semiconductor technology to convert and control electrical power. Demands for efficient energy management, conversion and conservation, and the increasing take-up of electronics in transport sys...

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Describing Integrated Power Electronics Modules using STEP AP210

The software environment for power electronics design is comprised of tools that address many interrelated disciplines including circuits design, physical layout, thermal management, structural mechanics, and electromagnetics. This usually results in a number of separate models that provide various views of a design, each of which is usually stored separately in proprietary formats. The problem...

Engineered Cementitious Composites (ecc) – Tailored Composites through Micromechanical Modeling

This article provides a brief overview of several classes of fiber reinforced cement based composites and suggests future directions in FRC development. Special focus is placed on micromechanics based design methodology of strain-hardening cement based composites. As example, a particular engineered cementitious composite newly developed at the ACE-MRL at the University of Michigan is described...