A Fundamental Overview of Accelerated Testing Analytical Models

This paper describes analytical models that are commonly used for product life estimation and accelerated life testing. Model descriptions include: Miner's "Rule" for describing accumulated fatigue damage; Coffin-Manson nonlinear power law, often applied to mechanical fatigue damage; Rudra model for CFF failures; Arrhenius steady-state temperature acceleration model for estimating chemical aging effects; Peck's model for accelerated combined temperature-humidity effects; and Kemeny model for combined temperature and voltage acceleration effects.

The general form of these models will be presented along with specific guidance regarding: relative strengths and appropriate applications for each model; limitations and sources of uncertainty for each model; and example values for exponents and material coefficients.