Introduction to Reliability Engineering - Why Do Engineering Products Fail?

3 important questions on Introduction to Reliability Engineering - Why Do Engineering Products Fail?

What are the main reasons why failures occur?

  • Design inherently incapable
  • Item overstressed
  • Variation
  • Wearout
  • Time-dependent mechanisms
  • Sneaks
  • Errors
  • Others

Design inherently incapable

Design is:
  • Too weak
  • Consume too much power
  • Resonance at wrong frequency
  • Others


The more complex the design or difficult the problems are to be overcome, the greater its potential for errors, omissions, and oversights.

Failures caused by other time-dependent mechanisms

  • Battery run-down
  • Creep
    • Caused by simultaneous high temperature and tensile stress

Examples:
  • Turbine discs
  • Fine solder joints
  • Progressive drift of electronic component parameter values

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