Reliability of Power Electronic Converter Systems [Book News]

Reliability is a major concern for power electronics designers spanning from industrial engineers to senior researchers. Power electronic converters' main problems can be technology infancy issues or subtle design flaws that can cause intermittent malfunctions, ruin the converter operation, or even destroy the converter. The timely and unique book- Reliability of Power Electronic Converter Systems outlines current research on reliability of power conversion systems. It includes well-known metrics such as mean lifetime, mean time to failure, and mean time between failures; modeling concepts; physics of failure of power semiconductors; failure models; remaining useful life; point availability; failure mode, mechanism, and effects analysis (FMMEA) or failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA); and principal component analysis together with stochastic hybrid systems (SHS) models for performance and reliability analysis.