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12 - Aeronautical, Mechanical, Chemical and Manufacturing Engineering
University of Greenwich
Application of Kriging and radial basis function in power electronic module wire bond structure reliability under various amplitude loading
Output funded under the EU Clean Skies project PEMREL (Grant No. 271788). Reports a first in using numerical techniques to allow fast predictions of lifetime and robustness of wirebonds used in power electronic modules. Techniques have been implemented in the university developed design tool - PowerLife - which is now used by our industrial partners SEMELAB (Liam Mills, R&D Manager, Liam.Mills@semelab-tt.com) and Dynex Semiconductors (Steve Jones, R&D Manager, Steve_Jones@dynexsemi.com). Output contributed to the group being awarded £500,000 in the new EPSRC funded project - Underpinning Power Electronics (EP/K034804/1) - where Greenwich is leading the modelling activities.