Effect of strain rate on solder joint failure under mechanical load

Abstract
A four-point bend test fixture and a daisy-chained test coupon with BGA mounted at 45-degree orientation were developed to evaluate solder joint failure through a simple test and finite element modeling procedure. The bending test was performed under various loading speed. The BGAs tested have 1.27 mm and 1.00 mm pitches, respectively. One of the significant findings is that the solder joints failure is highly strain rate dependent. At higher strain rate, solder joint failed at much less board deflection for some BGAs. This indicates that the common practice of quasi-static bending test is not sufficient to quantify the solder joint failure under shock load.

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