Design for reliability of power electronic systems

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 33-44

  Wang, Huai ^a   Ma, Ke ^a   Blaabjerg, Frede ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Design for reliability; IGBT modules; physics of failure; power electronics; wind power converter

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTABLE-SPEED DRIVES; CRITICAL COMPONENT; DESIGN FOR RELIABILITY; DESIGN PROCEDURE; ELECTRIC POWER; FLEXIBLE PROCESSING; HIGH AVAILABILITY; LONG LIFETIME; LOW COSTS; LOW MAINTENANCE; MEAN TIME BETWEEN FAILURES; MEAN TIME TO FAILURE; MISSION PROFILE; PHYSICS-OF-FAILURE; POWER ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY PREDICTION; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE;

DESIGN; ELECTRIC VEHICLES; ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; POWER CONVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; WIND POWER;

POWER QUALITY;

EID: 84872974397     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2012.6388833     Document Type: Conference Paper

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