Modeling and Analysis of Electrical Connectors in Salt Spray Environment

DOI

10.2991/cmsa-18.2018.6How to use a DOI?

Keywords

electrical connectors; modeling; salt spray test

Abstract

As a basic component, electrical connectors play a major role in the transmission and control of electric signals. In this paper, SubMiniature version A (SMA) coaxial connectors, which are widely used in the microwave equipment and radio frequency circuits, were taken as the research objects to investigate the deg-radation of electrical connectors in salt spray environment. The simulation model was built to analyze the failure mechanism. An accelerated test was conducted to study its electrical contact prop-erties and obtain the degradation data. The experimental and simulation results showed consistent trends. Accordingly, the degradation of the high-frequency performance for the electrical connector in the salt spray environment is mainly due to the for-mation of corrosion film on the contact surface.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Lin Guan
AU  - Yuanlong Li
AU  - Chendi Feng
AU  - Qingya Li
AU  - Yuqi Zhou
AU  - Jinchun Gao
PY  - 2018/04
DA  - 2018/04
TI  - Modeling and Analysis of Electrical Connectors in Salt Spray Environment
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Computer Modeling, Simulation and Algorithm (CMSA 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 21
EP  - 24
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/cmsa-18.2018.6
DO  - 10.2991/cmsa-18.2018.6
ID  - Guan2018/04
ER  -