Constitutive Behavior of SAC Leadfree Alloys at High Strain Rates

Author(s):  
Pradeep Lall ◽  
Sandeep Shantaram ◽  
Mandar Kulkarni ◽  
Geeta Limaye ◽  
Jeff Suhling

Electronic products are subjected to high G-levels during mechanical shock and vibration. Failure-modes include solder-joint failures, pad cratering, chip-cracking, copper trace fracture, and underfill fillet failures. The second-level interconnects may be experience high-strain rates and accrue damage during repetitive exposure to mechanical shock. Industry migration to leadfree solders has resulted in proliferation of a wide variety of solder alloy compositions. Few of the popular tin-silver-copper alloys include Sn1Ag0.5Cu and Sn3Ag0.5Cu. The high strain rate properties of leadfree solder alloys are scarce. Typical material tests systems are not well suited for measurement of high strain rates typical of mechanical shock. Previously, high strain rates techniques such as the Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar (SHPB) can be used for strain rates of 1000 per sec. However, measurement of materials at strain rates of 1–100 per sec which are typical of mechanical shock is difficult to address. In this paper, a new test-technique developed by the authors has been presented for measurement of material constitutive behavior. The instrument enables attaining strain rates in the neighborhood of 1 to 100 per sec. High speed cameras operating at 300,000 fps have been used in conjunction with digital image correlation for the measurement of full-field strain during the test. Constancy of cross-head velocity has been demonstrated during the test from the unloaded state to the specimen failure. Solder alloy constitutive behavior has been measured for SAC105, and SAC305 solders. Constitutive model has been fit to the material data. Samples have been tested at various time under thermal aging at 25°C and 125°C. The constitutive model has been embedded into an explicit finite element framework for the purpose of life-prediction of leadfree interconnects. Test assemblies has been fabricated and tested under JEDEC JESD22-B111 specified condition for mechanical shock. Model predictions have been correlated with experimental data.

2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pradeep Lall ◽  
Sandeep Shantaram ◽  
Jeff Suhling ◽  
David Locker

Electronic products are subjected to high G-levels during mechanical shock and vibration. Failure-modes include solder-joint failures, pad cratering, chip-cracking, copper trace fracture, and underfill fillet failures. The second-level interconnects may be experience high strain rates and accrue damage during repetitive exposure to mechanical shock. Industry migration to lead-free solders has resulted in proliferation of a wide variety of solder alloy compositions. One of the popular tin-silver-copper alloys is Sn3Ag0.5Cu. The high strain rate properties of lead-free solder alloys are scarce. Typical material tests systems are not well suited for measurement of high strain rates typical of mechanical shock. Previously, high strain rates techniques such as the split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) can be used for strain rates of 1000 s−1. However, measurement of materials at strain rates of 1–100 s−1 which are typical of mechanical shock is difficult to address. In this paper, a new test-technique developed by the authors has been presented for measurement of material constitutive behavior. The instrument enables attaining strain rates in the neighborhood of 1–100 s−1. High-speed cameras operating at 300,000 fps have been used in conjunction with digital image correlation (DIC) for the measurement of full-field strain during the test. Constancy of crosshead velocity has been demonstrated during the test from the unloaded state to the specimen failure. Solder alloy constitutive behavior has been measured for SAC305 solder. Constitutive model has been fit to the material data. Samples have been tested at various time under thermal aging at 25 °C and 125 °C. The constitutive model has been embedded into an explicit finite element framework for the purpose of life-prediction of lead-free interconnects. Test assemblies has been fabricated and tested under Joint Electron Device Engineering Council (JEDEC) JESD22-B111 specified condition for mechanical shock. Model predictions have been correlated with experimental data.


Author(s):  
Pradeep Lall ◽  
Sandeep Shantaram ◽  
Jeff Suhling ◽  
David Locker

Electronics may experience high strain rates when subjected to high g-loads of shock and vibration. Material and damage behavior of electronic materials at high strain rates typical of shock and vibration is scarce. Previously studies have shown that second-level interconnects have a high propensity for failure under shock and vibration loads in fine pitch electronics. Exposure to shock and vibration is common in a variety of consumer environments such as automotive and portable electronics. The low strain-rate properties of commonly used SnAgCu solders, including Sn1Ag0.5Cu and Sn3Ag0.5Cu, have been found to evolve with time after prolonged exposure to high temperatures. High strain rate properties of leadfree solder alloys in the strain-rate range of 1–100 sec−1 are scarce. Previous attempts at characterizing the high strain rates properties have focused on the use of the Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar (SHPB), which enables measurements of strain rates in the neighborhood of 1000 per sec. In this paper, a new test-technique developed by the authors has been presented for measurement of material constitutive behavior. The instrument enables attaining strain rates in the neighborhood of 1 to 100 per sec. Tests are conducted at strain rates 10, 35 and 50 per sec. High speed cameras operating at 75,000 fps have been used in conjunction with digital image correlation for the measurement of full-field strain during the test. Constancy of cross-head velocity has been demonstrated during the test from the unloaded state to the specimen failure. Solder alloy constitutive behavior has been measured for SAC105, SAC305 solders. Non-linear Ramberg-Osgood model has been used to fit the material data. The Ramberg-Osgood model available in Abaqus has been used for tensile test simulation and to correlate with DIC based experimental strain data.


2020 ◽  
Vol 143 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pradeep Lall ◽  
Vikas Yadav ◽  
Jeff Suhling ◽  
David Locker

Abstract Electronic components in downhole oil drilling and gas industry applications, automotive, and avionics may be exposed to high temperatures (>150 °C) and high strain rates (1–100 per sec) during storage, operation, and handling, which can contribute to the failures of electronic devices. Temperatures in these applications can exceed 200 °C, which is close to melting point for SnAgCu (SAC) alloys. Prior studies at low strain rates have shown property evolution even under moderate exposure to high temperature. In this paper, the evolution of Anand parameters for unaged and aged SAC (SAC105 and SAC-Q) lead-free solder alloys at high strain rates has been investigated induced under sustained periods of thermal aging. The thermal aged lead-free SAC solder alloys specimen has been tested at high strain rates (10–75 per sec) at elevated temperatures of (25 °C–200 °C). The SAC lead-free solder samples were subjected to isothermal aging at 50 °C up to 1-year before testing. To describe the material constitutive behavior, the Anand Viscoplastic model has been used. The effect of thermal aging on Anand parameters also has been investigated. In order to verify the accuracy of the model, the computed Anand parameters have been used to simulate the uni-axial tensile test. The material constitutive behavior has been implemented in a finite element framework to simulate the drop events using the Anand constitutive model and determine the plastic work per shock event. The plastic work per shock event is a measure of the damage progression in the solder interconnects. The constitutive model has been used to simulate the shock event of a ball-grid array package on printed circuit board assembly.


2011 ◽  
Vol 45 (24) ◽  
pp. 2495-2506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pibo Ma ◽  
Hong Hu ◽  
Lvtao Zhu ◽  
Baozhong Sun ◽  
Bohong Gu

This article reports the tensile behaviors of a novel kind of 3D textile composite, named as co-woven-knitted fabric (CWKF) reinforced composite, under quasi-static and high strain rates. The tensile tests were conducted along the warp direction (0°), bias direction (45°), and weft direction (90°) at quasi-static strain rate of 0.001/s and high strain rates ranging from 1589/s to 2586/s. The results indicate that the tensile strength, failure strain, tensile stiffness, energy absorption, and resilient energy are strain rate sensitive along all the three directions. The relationships between the mechanical parameters and the strain rate were also analyzed. The fractograph of the CWKF composite demonstrate that the tensile failure modes are matrix shear failure and fibers breakage under the quasi-static testing condition while interface failure and fibers pullout are at high strain rates.


2006 ◽  
Vol 3-4 ◽  
pp. 363-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Temimi ◽  
Noelle Billon

Thermo mechanical behaviour of unfilled and filled polypropylenes are studied in tension from 10-4 to 102 s-1. Complementary low velocity compression and shear tests are also performed. A high-speed video camera (up to 2500 frames/s) combined with image analysis, image correlation and an infra red pyrometer allow measuring 3D-strain fields and temperature during tests. Thus, data can be processed without restrictive assumptions. Beside usual (for polymers) temperature and strain rate sensitivities it is found that plastic deformation in these materials does not obey incompressibility assumption. Voiding damage is evidenced in the polymer matrix by SEM observations that result in volume change and significant decrease in Young modulus for both materials. Moreover, an increase in the temperature of more than 10 °C is observed and is likely to modify the behaviour of each material at high strain rates. Shear and compression measurements demonstrate that yield criteria and constitutive equation depend on loading. It is concluded that apparent yield stress in semi-crystalline polypropylene can be a result of a combination of “non strain rate sensitive” “non-cohesive mechanisms” and “strain rate sensitive” “cohesive mechanisms”. Experimental characterisation on polymers should then be revisited as most of the usual assumptions are invalid and non monotonic tests should be generalized.


Author(s):  
Matti Isakov ◽  
Jeremy Seidt ◽  
Kauko O¨stman ◽  
Amos Gilat ◽  
Veli-Tapani Kuokkala

In this study the mechanical properties of ferritic stainless steel EN 1.4521 (AISI 444) were characterized in uniaxial tension and simple shear. The specimen geometries were designed so that tests could be carried out both with a conventional uniaxial materials testing machine and at high strain rates with the Tensile Hopkinson Split Bar method. During the tests, specimen surface deformation was measured using a three dimensional digital image correlation technique based on a two-camera stereovision setup. This technique allowed direct measurement of the specimen gauge section deformation during the test. Test results indicate that the selected approach is suitable for large strain plastic deformation characterization of ductile metals. The stress-strain data obtained from the simple shear tests shows a correlation with the tensile test results according to the von Mises effective stress-strain criterion. Since necking is absent in shear, test data can be obtained at considerably higher plastic strains than in tension. However, the final fracture occurs under a complex loading mode due to the distortion of the specimen geometry and multiaxial loading introduced by the simple shear arrangement. Test results also show that reliable material data can be obtained at high strain rates.


Author(s):  
Douglas Jahnke ◽  
Yiannis Andreopoulos

Impingement of blast or shock waves on structures is characterized by a substantial transient aerodynamic load that develops over the short time associated with the shock reflection time scale. This mutual interaction between the shock wave and the structure can cause significant deformation of the structure and high strain rates within the material resulting in damage. While accelerometers, strain gages and other single point measurement probes and their corresponding techniques can provide valuable information of the local displacement and strain during blast loading, better understanding of the complex phenomena involved in these interactions require time dependent information acquired simultaneously from multi points on the structure. Digital Image Correlation is a full-field noncontact optical technique which can provide time dependent information of the displacement of the structure and the resultant high strain rates generated during the loading. The present setup consists of a single high-frame-rate camera which can accommodate two simultaneous stereo images of the deforming structure on its CMOS chip. Four different planar mirrors, appropriately positioned, provide the stereo views of the specimen captured on the chip. The present layout offers several advantages over traditional systems with two different cameras. First, it provides identical system parameters for the two views which minimizes their differences and thus facilitating robust stereo matching. Second, it reduces calibration time since only one camera is used and third its cost is substantially lower than the cost of a system with two cameras. The technique is being developed and tested in a large scale shock tube facility during loading by shock/blast wave of various impulses. The specimens used are flat plates made of high-alloy steel, aluminum or composite materials. In the present paper the development of the technique will be described and preliminary results of qualification tests will be presented and discussed.


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