Accelerated Testing Articles

Thermal cycling testing is a very widely used especially in electronics. It exposes devices and components to fluctuating temperature, which causes fatigue in the components and especially in their interconnections. For example, cracking due to fatigue is one of the...

One particular figure is very commonly used when reliability is discussed: a bathtub curve. The bathtub curve shows the failure rate of a product as a function of time. Thus, it is a description of various failure rates for products over their lifetime. An example of...

Humidity testing is one the most commonly used accelerated reliability test methods. This makes sense since high humidity level is a one of the most common reasons to cause failures. Moreover, humidity testing is relatively easy to conduct and equipment for it is...

Fluctuation of temperature tends to cause lots of failures for electronics. This effect can be tested with two different tests: thermal cycling and thermal shock. These two tests are compared in this infographic.