Facing both increasing competitive pressures and rising device complexity, integrated circuit (IC) companies are looking for more effective strategies able to speed delivery to market of higher ...

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is critical in ensuring safety and reliability, areas easily compromised if not monitored with a broad range of necessary tools and techniques. Locating concealed ...

Acoustic emission (AE) techniques offer a robust, real‐time method for evaluating structural integrity by detecting the transient elastic waves produced by crack formation and growth within materials.

While continuously improving IC and SOC technologies, higher clock rates, and more powerful processors are music to the design engineers’ ears, the headaches of test engineers are getting worse and ...

A four-year IAEA project involving nine research institutes resulted in the preparation of a set of guidelines aimed at standardizing small specimen test techniques (SSTT) for reference structural ...