As you probably know, x-ray inspection has problems positivly identifying cracks or delamination. This task is more suited to scanning laser acoustical microscopy but the cost is very high. It has been our experience that cracks are associated with the process problems of cold solder joints and/or thermal deformation of the packages and have x-ray image "signatures" associated with them. In other words, as I have been repeating, if the ball bonds are not uniform in size and shape then a process problem is creeping in. A particular signature associated with cracking or delamination can be found in IPC-7095 on page 64.
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