Temperature Cyclic Stress Screening (1)

Temperature Cyclic Stress Screening (1)

Environmental Stress Screening (ESS)

Stress screening is the use of acceleration techniques and environmental stress under the design strength limit, such as: burn in, temperature cycling, random vibration, power cycle... By accelerating the stress, the potential defects in the product emerge [potential parts material defects, design defects, process defects, process defects], and eliminate electronic or mechanical residual stress, as well as eliminate stray capacitors between multi-layer circuit boards, the early death stage of the product in the bath curve is removed and repaired in advance, so that the product through moderate screening, Save the normal period and decline period of the bathtub curve to avoid the product in the process of use, the test of environmental stress sometimes lead to failure, resulting in unnecessary losses. Although the use of ESS stress screening will increase the cost and time, for improving the product delivery yield and reduce the number of repairs, there is a significant effect, but for the total cost will be reduced. In addition, customer trust will also be improved, generally for electronic parts of the stress screening methods are pre-burning, temperature cycle, high temperature, low temperature, PCB printed circuit board stress screening method is temperature cycle, for the electronic cost of the stress screening is: Power pre-burning, temperature cycling, random vibration, in addition to the stress screen itself is a process stage, rather than a test, screening is 100% of the product procedure.

Stress screening applicable product stage: R & D stage, mass production stage, before delivery (screening test can be carried out in components, devices, connectors and other products or the whole machine system, according to different requirements can have different screening stress)

Stress screening comparison:

a. Constant high temperature pre-burning (Burn in) stress screening, is the current electronic IT industry commonly used method to precipitate electronic components defects, but this method is not suitable for screening parts (PCB, IC, resistor, capacitor), According to statistics, the number of companies in the United States that use temperature cycling to screen parts is five times more than the number of companies that use constant high temperature prefiring to screen components.

B. GJB/DZ34 indicates the proportion of temperature cycle and random vibrating screen selection defects, temperature accounted for about 80%, vibration accounted for about 20% of the defects in various products.

c. The United States has conducted a survey of 42 enterprises, random vibration stress can screen out 15 to 25% of the defects, while the temperature cycle can screen out 75 to 85%, if the combination of the two can reach 90%.

d. The proportion of product defect types detected by temperature cycling: insufficient design margin: 5%, production and workmanship errors: 33%, defective parts: 62%

Description of fault induction of temperature cyclic stress screening:

The cause of product failure induced by temperature cycling is: when the temperature is cycled within the upper and lower extremal temperatures, the product produces alternating expansion and contraction, resulting in thermal stress and strain in the product. If there is a transient thermal ladder (temperature non-uniformity) within the product, or the thermal expansion coefficients of adjacent materials within the product do not match each other, these thermal stresses and strains will be more drastic. This stress and strain is greatest at the defect, and this cycle causes the defect to grow so large that it can eventually cause structural failure and generate electrical failure. For example, a cracked electroplated through-hole eventually cracks completely around it, causing an open circuit. Thermal cycling enables soldering and plating through holes on printed circuit boards... Temperature cyclic stress screening is especially suitable for electronic products with printed circuit board structure.

The fault mode triggered by the temperature cycle or the impact on the product is as follows:

a. The expansion of various microscopic cracks in the coating, material or wire

b. Loosen poorly bonded joints

c. Loosen improperly connected or riveted joints

d. Relax the pressed fittings with insufficient mechanical tension

e. Increase the contact resistance of poor quality solder joints or cause an open circuit

f. Particle, chemical pollution

g. Seal failure

h. Packaging issues, such as bonding of protective coatings

i. Short circuit or open circuit of the transformer and coil

j. The potentiometer is defective

k. Poor connection of welding and welding points

l. Cold welding contact

m. Multi-layer board due to improper handling of open circuit, short circuit

n. Short circuit of power transistor

o. Capacitor, transistor bad

p. Dual row integrated circuit failure

q. A box or cable that is nearly short-circuited due to damage or improper assembly

r. Breakage, breakage, scoring of material due to improper handling... Etc.

s. out-of-tolerance parts and materials

t. resistor ruptured due to lack of synthetic rubber buffer coating

u. The transistor hair is involved in the grounding of the metal strip

v. Mica insulation gasket rupture, resulting in short circuit transistor

w. Improper fixing of the metal plate of the regulating coil leads to irregular output

x. The bipolar vacuum tube is open internally at low temperature

y. Coil indirect short circuit

z. Ungrounded terminals

a1. Component parameter drift

a2. Components are improperly installed

a3. Misused components

a4. Seal failure

Introduction of stress parameters for temperature cyclic stress screening:

The stress parameters of temperature cyclic stress screening mainly include the following: high and low temperature extremum range, dwell time, temperature variability, cycle number

High and low temperature extremal range: the larger the range of high and low temperature extremal, the fewer cycles required, the lower the cost, but can not exceed the product can withstand the limit, do not cause new fault principle, the difference between the upper and lower limits of temperature change is not less than 88°C, the typical range of change is -54°C to 55°C.

Dwell time: In addition, the dwell time can not be too short, otherwise it is too late to make the product under test produce thermal expansion and contraction stress changes, as for the dwell time, the dwell time of different products is different, you can refer to the relevant specification requirements.

Number of cycles: As for the number of cycles of temperature cyclic stress screening, it is also determined by considering product characteristics, complexity, upper and lower limits of temperature and screening rate, and the screening number should not be exceeded, otherwise it will cause unnecessary harm to the product and cannot improve the screening rate. The number of temperature cycles ranges from 1 to 10 cycles [ordinary screening, primary screening] to 20 to 60 cycles [precision screening, secondary screening], for the removal of the most likely workmanship defects, about 6 to 10 cycles can be effectively removed, in addition to the effectiveness of the temperature cycle, Mainly depends on the temperature variation of the product surface, rather than the temperature variation inside the test box.

There are seven main influencing parameters of temperature cycle:

(1) Temperature Range

(2) Number of Cycles

(3) Temperature Rate of Chang

(4) Dwell Time

(5) Airflow Velocities

(6) Uniformity of Stress

(7) Function test or not (Product Operating Condition)