The strength of plastic encapsulants is analyzed from the viewpoint of crack propagation. With a preexisting crack length a and a specific number of applied load cycles N, fatigue crack propagation rates da/dN of the encapsulants were measured with laboratory test specimens. It was found that the da/dN of encapsulants can be expressed as functions of the stress intensity factor range
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Components, Hybrids, and Manufacturing Technology, IEEE Transactions on
(Volume:10
,
Issue:
4
)
Date of Publication: Dec 1987