Example39 Elasto-Plastic Creep Material Subjected to Repetitive Thermal Loading

General

  • This is an example of multi-step thermal load analysis for elasto-plastic creep material.
     

  • In this exercise, the solder as a temperature-dependent elasto-plastic creep material is analyzed under the thermally loaded condition.
     

  • The plastic and creep strains accumulate over time.
     

  • Unless specified in the list below, the default conditions will be applied.
     

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Analysis Space

Item

Settings

Analysis Space

Axisymmetric

Model unit

mm

 

Analysis Conditions

To simplify the analysis, the axisymmetric model is analyzed.

Select the thermal load option.

Item

Settings

Solver

Mechanical Stress Analysis [Galileo]

Analysis Type

Static analysis

Options

Select Thermal load.

The Step/Thermal Load tab is set as follows.

Tab

Setting Item

Settings

Step/Thermal Load

Step Setting

Multi-step thermal load analysis

Time Setting

Set up

Reference temperature

25[deg]

Step/Reached Temperature Setting

Step

Time [s]

Substeps

Reached temperature [deg]

1

300

10

80

2

3600

10

80

3

3900

10

-40

4

7200

10

-40

5

7500

10

80

6

10800

10

80

7

11100

10

-40

8

14400

10

-40

Options for the Multi-Step Analysis

Save the results of substeps : Select

 

The reference temperature (non-stress temperature) is 25[deg]

Select [Multi-step thermal analysis] for the Step Setting, [Set up] for the Time Setting.
Also, set up in the [Step/Reached Temperature Setting].

 

The duration of the temperature-rise/fall steps is 300[s] = 5[min] each and the number of substeps is 10.

The duration of the temperature-keep steps is 3300[s] = 55[min] and the number of substeps is 10.

 

The absolute time is a physical parameter required for the creep materials analysis.

The creep strain changes even during the temperature-keep steps.

 The number of substeps is set to 10, the same number as the temperature-rise/fall steps.

 

Save results of substeps is selected by default to output all the results at substeps.

 

Model

A silicon chip is to be soldered on a glass-epoxy PCB.

The mesh size of the solder ball is set to 0.2.

Body Attributes and Materials

Body Number/Type

Body Attribute Name

Material Name

0/Sheet

PCB

006_Glass_epoxy

1/Sheet

SB

SOLDER

2/Sheet

CHIP

301_Silicon(single-crystal)

The material properties of SOLDER are set up as follows:

Material Name

Tab

Properties

SOLDER

Elasticity

Material Type: Elasto-plastic/Multilinear

Hardening Law: Kinematic hardening

Temperature Dependency Select

Material Property:

[Temperature-Young’s modulus Poison’s ratio] Table:

 

[Plastic strain-Stress] Multilinear: omitted due to too many points See the graphs below.

 

Stress-Strain Graph, Stress-Plastic strain Graph

 

Creep

Creep Type: Power law

Temperature Dependency: Yes

Units in Creep Equation: Stress [MPa], Time [h]

Material Property: See the table below

 

Coefficient of Expansion

23×10-6[1/deg]

Boundary Conditions

Boundary Condition Name/Topology

Tab

Boundary Condition Type

Settings

Fix_z/Vertex

Mechanical

Displacement

Select the Z-direction component.

UZ=0

Results

The accumulated equivalent creep strain at time 14400[s] is shown below.

Creep strains are exhibited all over the solder.

Creep strains are concentrated at the top right corner of the solder.

 

The accumulated equivalent creep strain over time is shown below.

The accumulated equivalent creep strain increases drastically when the temperature changes.

It increases slowly even in the temperature-keep period.

 

The accumulated equivalent plastic strain over time is shown below.

 

Unlike the creep strain, it increases only when there is a temperature change.

Compared to Ex-38, the plastic strain is reduced.

 

The von Mises equivalent stress at the border of SB and CHIP over time is shown below.

Compared to Ex-38, the Mises’s equivalent stress is relaxed during the temperature-keep period.