What does ELF stand for?

Early Life Failure

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Samples in periodicals archive:

With that in mind, the observed failure rate of the test population can be expressed on the Bathtub Curve as the result of the composition of three prominent failure types: early life failure, constant (random) failure and wear-out failure.

Applying reliability concepts to torque-limiting instruments: ...

So far, they've learned that solder joint reliability is "very different" for different parts, and that early life failures "may be dominated by special causes of variation" during initial runs.

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