Acoustic emission diagnostics of hidden defects of multilayer printed circuit boards in electronic devices

The article presents the results of the acoustic emission method application (AE) and machine learning algorithms in the problem of diagnosing defects in the stratification of a multilayer printed circuit board structure (MPB). A combination of physical and computational experiments is used to solve the problem. To conduct full-scale tests, the study uses a vibration stand to generate a load on the test object and receive acoustic emission signals. The computational experiment is carried out using mathematical modeling in a specialized ABAQUS environment. In order to obtain the best solution to the problem, an optimization problem is solved during the experiment to determine the frequency of the harmonic signal generated by the vibration stand with a view to receiving the maximum response of the MPB under review and unambiguous identification of the bundle defect. When conducting the numerical experiments, the effects and reactions (AE signals) of MPB were modeled at different frequencies of input vibration signals ranging from 100 to 2000 Hz. Full-scale experiments were conducted in the laboratory of control and testing of radioelectronic devices at the Department of KPRES of RTU MIREA. The results of the study have shown that the vibration frequency most effective for detecting a delamination defect equals 1500 Hz (a defect of almost rectangular shape with a size of 30×37 mm). Subsequently, this was confirmed by correlation analysis, which made it possible to identify the maximum differences between the acoustic emission signals of a suitable MPB sample and a sample with a delamination defect for the input vibration of a given frequency. The second part of the study deals with processing of the physical and computational experiment results, establishing the degree of adequacy of the obtained mathematical models to real samples of MPB and the processes occurring in them, as well as the use of machine learning algorithms for more reliable diagnosis of MPB defects. In the presented study, the random forest and the support vector machine learning (SVM) methods were employed as machine learning algorithms. Based on the results of their execution, the accuracy of the two algorithms was evaluated.

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