Printed circuit boards (PCBs) are an integral part of linear and rotary magnetic encoders, which are produced by RLS Merilna tehnika d.o.o. company. Mechanical and thermal loads are applied to PCBs during the production process and this can lead to failures in a PCB and solder joints. For this master’s dissertation numerical simulations of the loads on a PCB were carried out using the finite element method. Three different load cases were considered: reflow soldering, processor programming and depaneling. To validate the simulations first a validation experiment was conducted. A numerical model was built in Comsol modeling software. The numerical simulations have shown that no critical strain occurs on PCBs during the production process.
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