Contact area analysis by FEM with plating layer for electrical contact

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E92-C, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1013-1019

  Shimizu, Kaori ^a   Shimada, Shigeki ^b   Sawada, Shigeru ^a   Hattori, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD   (Japan)

^b SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contact load; Contact resistance; Electrical contact; FEM analysis; Plating

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONTACTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PLATING;

CONNECTOR RELIABILITY; CONTACT AREA ANALYSIS; CONTACT LOAD; ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT; ELECTRICAL CONTACTS; FEM ANALYSIS; PRECISE DETERMINATIONS; RELIABILITY PROBLEMS;

CONTACT RESISTANCE;

EID: 77950456827     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: 17451353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/transele.E92.C.1013     Document Type: Article

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