The physics of failure (POF) is an approach to designing reliable products to avoid failure, based on the knowledge of root cause failure mechanisms. It is based on failure reliability technology that studies the failure regularities from the failure reasons and failure mechanisms of the products. A clear understanding of the physics-of-failure is necessary in applications that afford little op...

Due to the expected increase of defects in circuits based on deep submicron technologies, reliability has become an important design criterion. Although different approaches have been developed to estimate reliability in digital circuits and some measuring concepts have been separately presented to reveal the quality of analog circuit reliability in the literature, there is a gap to estimate re...

progressive collapse is defined as the spread of an initial failure from element to element, eventually resulting in the collapse of an entire structure or a disproportionately large part of it. the current progressive collapse analyses and design methods in guidelines and codes focus on the alternate load path method. this method is suitable especially in the case of blast-induced progressive ...