It depends if you are trying to test against a standard for PTH structural integrity to determine if the boards will withstand multiple thermal cycles through assembly, rework or repair or if you are trying to test more for long-term reliability against end-use thermal cycles.  The industry standard at the bare board manufacturer level is to perform one thermal stress so you can flow down to your supplier to perform thermal stress testing per IPC-6012 section 3.6.1.1 IAW IPC-TM-650, Method 2.6.8, test Condition "A" (288C for 10 seconds) per the number of cycles you deem appropriate for your assembly process, e.g., double-sided SMT (2), PTH components (1), rework (2), maybe five cycles.  Your printed board suppliers should be capable of performing this test for you.

If you are also or more concerned with PTH structural integrity surviving end-use requirements then you could specify Thermal Shock as Joyce suggested but you don't randomly use -55 to 150C, you need to specify a test condition per Table 1 of IPC-TM-650, Method 2.6.7.2, based on material type.  This test is considered a special requirement per Table 4-3 of IPC-6012 and will probably have to be performed by an independent test lab, not done by bare printed board supplier (extra time and cost).  You also probably need to flow down the requirement to have the board supplier to ensure to add test coupon "D" to the manufacturing panels for this test.

Regards,

Scott A. Bowles
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Dear all, 

The test method 2.4.13.1 specifies  test method that is designed to determine the thermal integrity of unclad or metallic clad laminates using short-term solder exposure. My interest is to find the toughest know standard for PTH integrity. regards,


R.Saravanan

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