Determine and design the best alt

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Determine and Design the Best ALT Fred Schenkelberg, Consultant January 23 rd thru 26 th , 2012 RAMS Session 13C

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Paper presented at the 2012 RAMS about a method to select the best accelerated life test with consideration of 6 important factors.

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Determine and Designthe Best ALT

Fred Schenkelberg, ConsultantJanuary 23rd thru 26th, 2012

RAMS Session 13C

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Selection Criteria

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Selection CriteriaMeaningful Results

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Selection CriteriaMeaningful ResultsMeasures

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Threshold

Unrelated

Surrogate

Direct

Meaningful Results:Measures

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Meaningful ResultsMeasuresCost

Selection Criteria

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Threshold

Prohibitive

Budget

Inexpensive

Cost

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Meaningful ResultsMeasuresCostPrecisionDurationSamples

Selection Criteria

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ALT APPROACHESConsider the alternative ways to conduct the testing

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Example CaseCapacitor24/7 operationHigh voltage loadOutdoor environment

Insulation breakdown failure mechanism

Let’s consider some ALT options

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Time Compression

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Build a Model

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Given a Model

Peck’s Relationship

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Step Stress

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Degradation

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Example CaseCapacitor24/7 operationHigh voltage loadOutdoor environment

Insulation breakdown failure mechanism

3 viable ALT options

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SelectAssume a Model

ALT Selection

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Questions?