Universal SynapticsTechnical Issues-Links

Aging, No Fault Found, Intermittents: 

• Scope of the Problem
• Aging/NFF causes, effects, and cures. (IEEE White Paper  AutoTestCon updated)  (HTML)(quick download)
• Aging/NFF causes, effects, and cures. (IEEE White Paper  AutoTestCon  updated)  (MS WORD)(for printing/distribution )
• Slide Show: NAVAIR 2001 CHROME Conference on Aging Wiring (PPT presentation)(lots of notes/links)
• No Fault Found...Correspondence with AMC on why this particular solution is not "snake oil" (MS WORD)
• Slide Show: Discusses NFF/testing problems in an aircraft environment (Browser Graphics)

Avionics Magazine:
 
• When the Average Isn't Good Enough... Oct 2002, David Evans, Safety in Avionics 
• How Systems Age..(And how to test for it) Nov 2000, Walter Shawlee, Avionics System Design.

In the news.. Reports, Investigations, etc. 
 

• White House NSTC report on Aging Wire
• NASA'S Wiring Integrity Research (Wire) Pilot Study
• What the Experts are Saying About the IFD
  


Intermittent Connection Science from AMP Inc.: 
 

• Engineering Data from AMP Inc.
• Contact Problems Due to Fretting and Their Solution (.pdf)
• Low Level Contact Resistance Characterization (.pdf)
• A New Criterion for Dynamic Reliability of Contacts (.pdf)
• Detection of Nanosecond Intermittency (.pdf)
• A Brief Overview of Electrical Connector Reliability


Aircraft Safety
 

• Aviation Safety Magazine
• Tricked by a Transient. by Mark Lacagnina
• An open letter to Aviation Safety Magazine


Regulations: 
 

• White House Commision on Aircraft Safety and Security
• An open letter to the Commission
• Their recommendation on avionics and age related failures
• The FAA's Aging Transport Non-structural Systems Plan

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