Crack Paths and Fracture Loads of BGA Solder Joints under Bending as a Function of Strain Rate and Mode Ratio
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Abstract
ABSTRACT Printed circuit boards (PCBs) populated with ball grid array (BGA) solder joints undergo various failure modes depending on the loading conditions. In this study, experiments were performed to characterize the fracture behavior of a package-on-board solder joint system without underfill as a function of the speed of loading. A piece of FR4 was bonded to the free side of the package to build a double cantilever beam (DCB) test specimen from a section of the PCB containing the package. Loading brackets were bonded to both PCB members and a servoelectric testing machine as used to apply an opening speed of either 0.002 mm/s or 4.23 mm/s. This increase in strain rate caused an obvious change in the crack path. Fracture through the PCB was observed in quasi-static loading, whereas predominantly solder joint fracture was detected at the higher strain rate. Depending on the type of PCB and the arrangement of the BGA, the crack front in quasistatic fracture was either continuous, across the entire width of the PCB including the gaps between the solder pads, or it was discontinuous, and only present as discrete sections of pad cratering. Two solder alloy compositions were examined (i.e. SAC305 and SAC0807), with SAC0807 yielding a slightly larger fracture load than SAC305 loaded at the intermediate strain rate. The results are discussed in terms of the fracture strengths of the crack paths and their sensitivity to strain rate.
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| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
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