Laminated composites are increasingly used in aeronautics and the wind energy industry, as well as in the automotive industry. In these applications, the construction and processing need to fulfill the highest requirements regarding weight and mechanical properties. Environmental issues, like fuel consumption and CO2-footprint, set new challenges in producing lightweight parts that meet the highly monitored standards for these branches. In the automotive industry, one main aspect of construction is the impact behavior of structural parts. To verify the quality of parts made from composite materials with little effort, cost and time, non-destructive test methods are increasingly used. A highly recommended non-destructive testing method is thermography analysis. In this work, a prototype for a car’s base plate was produced by using vacuum infusion. For research work, testing specimens were produced with the same multi-layer build up as the prototypes. These specimens were charged with defined loads in impact tests to simulate the effect of stone chips. Afterwards, the impacted specimens were investigated with thermography analysis. The research results in that work will help to understand the possible fields of application and the usage of thermography analysis as the first quick and economic failure detection method for automotive parts.

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Experiments were carried out using P-TQFP-176 packages to study the mode II popcorn effect in thin packages. The doming of the package backside was measured as a function of time and temperature. The measurements were performed using a line projection method. An "accelerated" increase in the doming was found to correlate with the onset of the package crack propagation. It was shown that when a constant critical doming angle is reached, package cracks begin to propagate toward the surface. This critical doming angle was found to be temperature independent between 170°C and 215°C. Furthermore the development of the package doming with time was described by a simple model based on the moisture diffusion from molding compound and die-attach material in combination with a bimaterial plate theory. The water content of the die-attach layer after preconditioning was calculated from the model and it was found to be in good agreement with the results of a three dimensional finite element simulation