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Moazzami, M. (author), Akhavan-Safar, A. (author), Ayatollahi, M. R. (author), Poulis, J.A. (author), da Silva, L. F.M. (author), Teixeira De Freitas, S. (author)Adhesive joints are frequently exposed to cyclic ageing conditions during their service life, which can have a substantial impact on the mechanical properties of both the adhesive and the substrates. The safe life philosophy, commonly employed in the design of bonded joints, underscores the importance of obtaining an accurate estimate of the...journal article 2023
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Herrmann, A. (author), Erich, S. J.F. (author), van der Ven, L. G.J. (author), Huinink, H. P. (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), van Soestbergen, M. (author), Mavinkurve, A. (author), De Buyl, F. (author), Fischer, H. R. (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author), Adan, O. C.G. (author)Epoxy Mold Compounds (EMC) are used to protect integrated circuits (IC) from environmental influences, with one of these influences being moisture ingress, causing corrosion. To obtain the needed thermal and mechanical properties EMCs require a high loading of (silica) fillers, introducing a large amount of interface. While silane coupling...journal article 2022
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Moazzami, M. (author), Ayatollahi, M. R. (author), Akhavan-Safar, A. (author), Teixeira De Freitas, S. (author), Poulis, J.A. (author), da Silva, L. F.M. (author)In some industrial applications, adhesive joints are cyclically exposed to a moist environment, where cyclic moisture absorption and desorption can significantly alter the fracture energy of the bonded joints. Most previous studies are based on monotonic aging conditions, while the performance of bonded joints under cyclic aging is not well...journal article 2022
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Chen, Liangbiao (author), Zhou, Jiang (author), Chu, Hsing-wei (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Fan, Xuejun (author)While moisture diffusion in microelectronic device and packaging has been studied for decades, the problems involving complex nonlinear moisture diffusion in multi-material assembly have not been fully studied. This paper has developed a general nonlinear diffusion model by adopting water activity, a continuous state variable, as the field...journal article 2017