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Design for Reliability of Solder Joints

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As mentioned earlier that reliability of solder joints consists of three major tasks, namely DFR (design for reliability), reliability testing and data analysis, and failure analysis as shown in Fig. 6.1. The reliability testing and data analysis have been discussed in Chap. 6, DFR is the focus of this chapter.

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Lau, J.H., Lee, NC. (2020). Design for Reliability of Solder Joints. In: Assembly and Reliability of Lead-Free Solder Joints. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3920-6_7

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