Three year plan

I have just completed my RDA1a form and so I now have a workplan:

Year 1 Tasks

• Undertake literature review on the latest damage models generally and in the field of power electronics. This will include previous Univ Greenwich work.
• Review and document damage models and material models for (i) Wire Bonds, (ii) SnAg solder joints and Iiii) Sintered Silver joints
• Demonstrate damage mechanics modelling using simple model in ANSYS & PHYSICA.
• Work closely with University of Nottingham team – obtain data for use in new model development
• Develop damage models for wirebonds and SnAg solder
• Investigate how to include microstructure effects in the models
• Use ROMARA to develop reduced order models for above damage models
• Work closely with Dr Hua Lu to embed above models into POWERLIFE software
• Present research at department PhD presentations
• Prepare paper for EuroSime 2013 conference
• Consider writing a review paper for IEEE CPMT Transactions

Year 2 Tasks

• Verify accuracy of models developed for wirebonds and SnAg silver
• Work closely with Univ Nottingham to obtain data on Sintered Silver joints
• Develop a damage model for Sintered Silver Joints including microstrure effects
• Validate above model with data from Univ Nottingham and industrial partners
• Write paper for EPTC conference (Singapore)
• Disseminate work at school PhD seminars
• Write journal paper for ASME Microelectronics Reliability
• Work closely with Dr Hua Lu to embed Sintered Silver models into POWERLIFE
• Quantify the accuracy of current models using data from Univ Nottingham and Industrial partners
• Complete MPHIL/PHD transfer

Year 3 Tasks

• Quantify process variations and model uncertainty for wire bond and die attach materials
• Capture above variations into POWERLIFE software to provide a framework for design for Robustness
• review physics-of-failure based prognostics models
• Identify methodology to include developed damage models into a real-time prognostics and health monitoring framework
• Use the schools NI PXI system to demonstrate the above.
• Disseminate research at schools PhD seminar
• prepare paper for ECTC conference in USA.
• Write paper for Applied Mathematical Modelling Journal.
• Prepare contents page for PhD thesis and agree with supervisors
• Write PhD thesis

Should be fun... Travelling, writing papers and learning new software. Right I better get back to work.