Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 06 09:38:59 EST 2010 | lynn_norman
Via failure could be caused by cracks in the barrel, or thin plating, or fractures in the traces leading to the vias, . X-ray analysis could pick up a fractured trace and cross-sectioning of the vias could pick up the cracks and thin plating. Secon
Electronics Forum | Mon Oct 04 07:48:34 EDT 2010 | scottp
When you break them where is the failure? Is it the solder joint (doubtful), the part termination, the body of the part, or the board? If in the solder joint, is it in the bulk solder or intermetallic? If in the part, what direction is the crack?
Electronics Forum | Mon Dec 02 16:25:06 EST 2002 | jimlew
In doing process qualifications for 0201 caps, has anyone taken cross-sections and discovered cracks / hairline fractures / voids between the metalization on the end and the ceramic itself? (not cracks in the solder joint) We are well within the cap
Electronics Forum | Fri Apr 16 11:36:33 EDT 2010 | fönsi
Thank you for the links. I didn't know that there are companys that build test systems for ultrasonic inspection. My idea was to use a ultrasonic detector similar to crack inspection, for example to detect if the cooling pad is melted, or a solder jo
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 16 18:27:34 EST 1999 | Earl Moon
| We are having a small number (~2%) of our boards pass our manufacturing diagnostics, fail once they reach the customer, fail when they get back to us and then start working again after handling them for a short time. We have eliminated a lot of it
Electronics Forum | Wed Jul 10 18:19:42 EDT 2002 | davef
Flex cracking under the terminations is generally regarded as one of the primary causes of failure of ceramic chips. If you can see cracks in the solder joints from board flex, those chips are certainly strongly suspect, and you must assume there is
Electronics Forum | Wed Mar 22 01:24:54 EST 2006 | Joseph
Dear all, Referring technical report from Vitronics Soltec, "Pad lifting, fillet lifting and fillet tearing issues in LF soldering". The use of LF solder alloys today has brought about a recurrence of this crack formation, called fillet tearing. The
Electronics Forum | Tue Nov 01 10:48:24 EST 2005 | Rob
Can't say too much about the solder joints issue, but about a decade ago we did have a lot of problems with resonators being damaged by harmonics from Ultrasonic board washing & Ultrasonic welding. However this mostly manifested itself as cracking i
Electronics Forum | Thu Nov 19 22:52:34 EST 2009 | davef
Something is incorrect. Either: * Assembly dead functional and when we press BGA by thumb it works ... OR * Cross section with no voids , no solder joint crack. Turn-off the smoke machine.
Electronics Forum | Thu Apr 24 21:52:18 EDT 2008 | fowlerchang
We have measured the temperature of CSP solder joint. The peak temperature is 232oC and the wetting time above 217oC is 30s. But we use leaded solder paste instead of lead free solder paste. I doubt why no crack of solder joint was observed after cr
