Reliability-oriented design of three-phase power converters for aircraft applications

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1249-1263

  Burgos, Rolando ^a   Chen, Gang ^b   Wang, Fred ^c   Boroyevich, Dushan ^d   Odendaal, Willem Gerhardus ^d   Van Wyk, Jacobus Daniel ^e  

^a ABB INC   (United States)

^b ON SEMICONDUCTOR   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d State University   (United States)

^e Auckland Park Campus ^*  (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT APPLICATIONS; CRITICAL COMPONENT; CRITICAL SYSTEMS; DESIGN PROCESS; FAILURE MODE ANALYSIS; FISHBONE DIAGRAMS; MORE ELECTRIC AIRCRAFT; RELIABILITY FACTOR; RELIABILITY LEVEL; RELIABILITY MODEL; RELIABLE COMPONENTS; SYSTEM COMPLEXITY; THREE-PHASE POWER CONVERTER;

DESIGN; FACTOR ANALYSIS; POWER CONVERTERS; SPACE APPLICATIONS;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84859903450     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2012.6178060     Document Type: Article

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