ACCELERATED RELIABILITY TRAINING

Preventing Thermal & Vibration Failures in Electronic Equipment Overview

by Steve Carlson

Steve Carlson

Join us for our next webinar! September 16, 2026, 8:30 -11:30 am Pacific time (California) Cost $300 per person. Group discounts available! Please note, this webinar will be recorded. If the time is not convenient for you, this webinar can be purchased to view at your leisure. Contact us for more details.


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This 3-hour webinar is an overview of his 2-day seminar and will focus on these three topics: 

• To understand how variations in coefficients of thermal expansion (CTE) can affect the magnitude of the displacements, forces, and stresses that are developed in electronic assemblies during thermal cycling environments and how these factors affect fatigue life. 

• To understand how resonant conditions can affect dynamic displacements, forces and stresses in electronic assemblies during different sine and random vibration environments. 

• To understand the concept of "damage accumulation" and how it can be used to determine the approximate fatigue life of various electronic assemblies due to different combinations of fatigue accumulated in thermal cycling and vibration environments. 

This course is based upon the popular book Preventing Thermal and Vibration Failures in Electronic Equipment by Prof. Dave Steinberg. 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

R&D Electronic Engineers and Managers

Packaging Engineers

Quality & Reliability Engineers

Test Engineers

Manufacturing Engineers

Mechanical Engineers

Application and Sale Engineers

Your Instructor

Steve Carlson has over two decades of extensive experience in defense/aerospace industry dealing with design and analysis of electronic hardware with a strong understanding of thermal and structural analysis. He is currently a Principal engineer at Jet Propulsion Laboratory leading a group of analysts in the Reliability and Mission Assurance section. Steve learned the classical techniques for analyzing electronic hardware from Joel Sloan (author Design and Packaging of Electronic Equipment) and Dave Steinberg (author of multiple thermal and vibration analysis books) at Litton Guidance and Control Systems. Steve has expanded the classical techniques to include modern solid modeling and Finite Element Analysis to reduce analysis time, improve accuracy, and decrease product development time.

Cost: $300 per person, $270 per person if you have five or more from the same company

Time: 8:30 - 11:30 am Pacific (California) each day

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. NOTE if you do not receive the confirmation email, please call us at 303-655-3051

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