diff --git a/TO_DO_LIST.txt b/TO_DO_LIST.txt index c6ba400..7a3d6c8 100644 --- a/TO_DO_LIST.txt +++ b/TO_DO_LIST.txt @@ -2,6 +2,6 @@ Write up detailed failure modes essay for R and OPAMP with ref to EN298, FMD-91, Get thesis template, have emailed Aidian on this. -Start writing up approvals backgrouns to static FMEA. +Start writing up approvals backgrounds to static FMEA. diff --git a/old_thesis/component_failure_modes_definition/component_failure_modes_definition.tex b/old_thesis/component_failure_modes_definition/component_failure_modes_definition.tex index 201eefe..e804218 100644 --- a/old_thesis/component_failure_modes_definition/component_failure_modes_definition.tex +++ b/old_thesis/component_failure_modes_definition/component_failure_modes_definition.tex @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Let us first define a component. %This is anything with which we use to build a product or system. This is anything we use to build a product or system. It could be something quite complicated -like an integrated microcontroller, or quite simple like the humble resistor. +like an integrated micro controller, or quite simple like the humble resistor. We can define a component by its name, a manufacturers' part number and perhaps @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ Parameter change not considered for EN298 because the resistors are down-rated f maximum possible voltage exposure -- find refs. -FMD-91 gives the following percentatges for failure rates in +FMD-91 gives the following percentages for failure rates in \label{downrate} The parameter change, is usually a failure mode associated with over stressing the component. In a system designed to typical safety critical constraints (as in EN298) @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ these environmentally induced failure modes need not be considered. Literature suggests, latch up, latch down and oscillation. FMD-91 states, V+ disconnected, V- V+ shorted, NOOP and Low slew. -EN298 does not specifgically include OP_AMPS and these would fall under +EN298 does not specifically define OP\_AMPS failure modes; these would fall under the procedure outlined in table \cite{en298}[A.1 note e]. This demands that all open connections, and shorts between adjacent pins be considered. We can examine these failure modes by taking our 358 op-amp and examining @@ -935,13 +935,14 @@ are added to UML diagram in figure \ref{fig:cfg} and represented in figure \ref \begin{figure}[h] \centering - \includegraphics[width=400pt,keepaspectratio=true]{../master_uml.jpg} + \includegraphics[width=400pt,keepaspectratio=true]{master_uml.jpg} % cfg2.jpg: 702x464 pixel, 72dpi, 24.76x16.37 cm, bb=0 0 702 464 \caption{Complete UML diagram} \label{fig:cfg2} \end{figure} + \subsection{Ontological work on FMEA}