I heard that cracks on the corners could be an indication of a CTE mismatch with the solder joint and the component.  It may be that there is too much solder around the cap.  The solder does not expand the same as the component or PCB thus causing a crack at the corner.  A smaller pad is suppose to help in these situations.  Check out the MuRata catalog C-22-B.
Tom

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        Betreff:        Re: [TN] FW: What it would be like living in
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        Well I don't know about being a joke, but I've saved it as a handy
        little utility.
        By selecting it from my start menu I can now turn a PCB that I am
        working on upside down to view it from another angle.

        Something that I have occasionally wanted to do. I can remember
actually
        going as far as turning the monitor on its side
        before, just so that I could view something from a different angle
        without upsetting everything else in the PCB file.... <g>
Hi technos, we have some problems with 1812 (and also with 1210)
capacitors
on FR4 because cracks at the corner. Is there any size limit for SMT cap's
on FR4 (may be different classed for different application temperatures)?
Thanks, Bernhard, Zürich

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