This book provides the basic Reliability Physics and Engineering tools that are needed by Electrical
Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Materials Scientists, and Applied Physicists to build better products.
The material includes information for engineers to develop better methodologies for producing reliable
product designs and materials selections to improve product reliability. Important statistical training
and tools are contained within the text. The author emphasizes the physics of failure and the development
of reliability engineering models for failure.

The beginning of the book concentrates on device/materials degradation and the development of the
critically important time-to-failure models. Since time-to-failure is a statistical process, the needed
statistical tools are presented next along with failure-rate modeling. Following that the use of
accelerated testing and the modeling of the acceleration factors are presented. The next section focuses
on the effective use of these acceleration factors, during initial product-level testing and operation,
in order to reduce the expected device failure rate in the field. The important time-to-failure models
are presented next for Electrical Engineering applications. Likewise, the next section addresses important
time-to-failure models for Mechanical Engineering applications. The final chapters provide both Electrical
and Mechanical Engineers with design help specifically, conversion of dynamic/transient stresses into
equivalent static forms, establishing aggressive but safe design rules, and the need to look very closely
at design and process interactions.

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