Pcb Vibration Analysis

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Vibration Analysis of Printed Circuit Board Plate with varying Boundary Condition Abstract: The Young?s Modulus (E) plays key role in the vibration response of any structure. Usually the Printed Circuit Board (PCB) plates are used in military application, consists of more than 6 layers, with pre-peg and copper composition. Thus E value of the (PCB) plate will vary from one design to other as it depends on the composition of layers. These PCB plates are subjected to vibration loads ? sine, random and shock. A detailed work has been carried out to quantify the mechanical properties of the PCB plate both analytically and experimentally. This E value obtained was used in the FEM analysis (using ANSYS 16) to solve the vibration response of the…show more content…
It is necessary to estimate the natural frequency of the PCB. For this estimate, one has to have an accurate estimate of E value of the PCB. PCBs are designed and manufactured with a variety of polyamide materials such as solder mask, metallic material such as copper trace, composite materials such as pre-preg and core material. For military application the PCBs are made up of different layers of copper which plays important role in the thermo-mechanical behaviour of the substrate due to the large Young?s modulus of copper at both room temperature and reflow temperature. In this paper the estimation of E of PCB and using that estimation of natural frequency of PCB was carried out both analytically and experimentally to provide safe mounting design of the PCB in the military electronic…show more content…
The PCb with 4 holes mounted and 6 holes mounted boundary conditions were analysed and as expected the 6 hole mounted condition yielded higher natural frequency. Experimental: A fixture was designed to mount the PCB on to the vibration shaker. The fixture design was carried out with the consideration that the natural frequency of the fixture (3210 Hz) is well above the maximum frequency (2000 Hz) of the test spectrum. The PCB was mount on the shaker and the response of the PCB was measured using piezoelectric accelerometer. The peak amplification of the accelerometer output provided the estimate of the natural frequency of the PCB. Fig.-1: Experimental estimation of

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