Performance

Performance/Control

MEC uses the following test methods to examine AMALPHA bonding conditions.

  • Compressive shear strength test
  • Vertical tensile strength test
  • Airtightness test (helium leak/underwater airtightness)

Test specimen geometry

Test specimen for compressive shear/airtightness test

Test specimen for tensile/compressive shear test

Test specimen for airtightness test

Test specimen for tensile test

Measuring apparatuses

Autograph
(bonding strength measurement)

Helium leak tester
 

Thermal cycle tester

Jigs for underwater airtightness test

Measurement methods

Compressive shear strength

Tensile shear strength

Vertical tensile strength

Helium leak test

Jigs for underwater airtightness test

Results of strength test (compressive shear)

Metal Resin Bonding strength
A5052 PPS 41.7MPa
C1100 PPS 36.8MPa
SUS304 PPS 40.9MPa

Results of airtightness test (helium leak)

  Al SUS Cu
PPS
PA6
PA66
Phenol
Epoxy
  • ○:1.0 x 10-10 Pa∙m3/s max. in helium leak test (lower than leak detection limit)

In all of these tests, test specimens failed due to fracture of resin. In practice, these tests measured the strength of the resin. The true resin-to-metal bonding strength is presumed to be higher than the values shown above. In addition, results of tensile strength tests would be approximately 30 MPa since the resin would break somewhere in its middle portion.

SEM image of fracture surface of resin

x100 100μm

The resin-to-metal bonding interface of failed test specimens monitored using SEM reveals that the bonding is intact at the interface.

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