FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
1 Scope
2 General considerations
2.1 Intrinsic degradation mechanisms
2.2 Extrinsic degradation mechanisms
2.3 Control of extrinsic degradation
2.4 Failure modes and failure mechanisms
2.5 Degradation mechanisms
3 Test methods and acceleration factors
4 Reliability statistics
5 Acceptance criteria
6 Estimation of the reliability of multi-position
connectors
6.1 Estimation of connector reliability from contact
reliability when the contacts in a connector
perform statistically independently
6.2 Estimation of connector reliability using
asymptotic extreme-value distributions
7 Summary and conclusions
Annexes
A Detailed example of an extreme-value reliability
calculation
B Bibliography