Quality and Reliability Methods for Primary Batteries

BATTERY CHARACTERISTICS AND RELIABILITY CONCEPTS.

Basic Concepts.

The Operating Characteristics of Primary Batteries.

Thermodynamics.

Kinetics.

ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF BATTERY RELIABILITY.

Reliability and Distribution Functions.

Battery Capacities and Distribution Functions.

Deterministic Models of Reliability Kinetics.

Kinetics of Battery Deterioration and Capacity Distribution Functions.

Stochastic Models of Reliability Kinetics.

Reliability Modeling and Accelerated Kinetics.

Battery Sampling and Confidence of Reliability Estimates.

PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF BATTERY RELIABILITY.

Practical Assessment of Battery Reliability.

Multicell Batteries and Reliability.

Battery Diagnostics and Fault Trees.

Nondestructive Techniques.

Designing for Reliability.

Manufacturing for Reliability.

Monitoring the Field Performance of Batteries.

Case Histories.

Index.