Conducted-susceptibility testing as an alternative approach to unit-level radiated-susceptibility verifications

This work presents a theoretical rationale for the substitution of radiated-susceptibility (RS) verifications defined in current aerospace standards with an equivalent conducted-susceptibility (CS) test procedure based on bulk current injection (BCI) up to 500 MHz. Statistics is used to overcome the lack of knowledge about uncontrolled or uncertain setup parameters, with particular reference to the common-mode impedance of equipment. The BCI test level is properly investigated so to ensure correlation of currents injected in the equipment under test via CS and RS. In particular, an over-testing probability quantifies the severity of the BCI test with respect to the RS test.