Summary for tin plating stress Discussion
Thickness vs stress in tin plating is the core question here: a student asks whether a thicker tin coating necessarily builds more stress and therefore relates to tin whisker formation. The thread excerpt provided contains only the question and does not include any answers, so no confirmed technical conclusion is available from the source text. Based on the wording of the question alone, the issue is framed as a request for confirmation rather than a settled fact. Because no respondent comments are present in the excerpt, there is no named expert advice to attribute and no evidence in the source to support or reject the idea that thicker tin deposits always create more stress.
Q. Hi,
I am a student working on tin whiskers. I would like to find confirmation regarding thickness vs stress of the tin coating. Is it true that the thicker the coating is, the more stress it builds?
Thanks.
Feldman Kuah
material sc student – Klang, Selangor, Malaysia
2004