The thermocyclic fatigue behavior of the low-melting solder 43Sn/43Pb/14Bi has been investigated and compared to that of standard 60Sn/4OPb solder via metallographic analysis (using scanning electron microscopy) and evaluation of the degree of fatigue development (using a fatigue scale as a function of thermocycles). Specimens were subjected to shearing strains imposed by several hundred fatigue thermocycles. Both solder types fatigue by the same microstructural failure mechanism as described by other workers. The mechanism is characterized by a preferential coarsening of the solder joint microstructure at the region of maximum stress concentration where cracks originate.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc501128 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Calderon, Jose Guadalupe |
| Contributors | Marshall, James L., 1940-, Daugherty, Kenneth E., Pinizzotto, Russell F. |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | ix, 108 leaves : ill., Text |
| Rights | Public, Copyright, Calderon, Jose Guadalupe, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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