Modeling early stage fretting of electrical connectors subjected to random vibration

IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 721-727

  Flowers, George T ^a   Xie, Fei ^a   Bozack, Michael J ^a   Horvath, Roland ^a   Malucci, Robert D ^b   Rickett, Bretton I ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MOLEX INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectors; Fretting corrosion; Random vibration

Indexed keywords

FRETTING CORROSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRINTED CIRCUIT DESIGN; THERMAL CYCLING; THERMAL STRESS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

RANDOM VIBRATION; THRESHOLD VIBRATION LEVELS; WIRE-TO-BOARD CONNECTOR;

ELECTRIC CONNECTORS;

EID: 29244446264     PISSN: 15213331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCAPT.2005.859762     Document Type: Article

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5. G. T. Flowers, F. Xie, M. Bozack, and R. D. Malucci, "Vibration thresholds for fretting corrosion in electrical connectors," in Proc. 48th IEEE Holm Conf. Electrical Connectors, Oct. 21-23, 2002, pp. 133-139.