Dave demonstrates various practical PCB and component selection solutions and techniques to prevent flex stress cracking of Multi Layer Ceramic Capacitors (MLCC) on PCB’s and preventing your product from catching on fire!  
Open Mode capacitors.  
Flexible Endcap Soft Termination Capacitors  
Lead Frame Capacitors  
Series Capacitors

[TDK Solutions](https://product.tdk.com/info/en/products/capacitor/ceramic/mlcc/technote/solution/mlcc02/index.html#anc01) for Ceramic Capacitor Cracking

[Soft Termination](https://product.tdk.com/info/en/catalog/datasheets/mlcc_commercial_soft_en.pdf)

[Open Mode](https://product.tdk.com/info/en/catalog/datasheets/mlcc_commercial_openmode_en.pdf)

[AVX Flexiterm](http://www.avx.com/products/ceramic-capacitors/surface-mount/automotive-mlcc-with-flexiterm/)

[Kemet Flex Termination](http://www.kemet.com/Lists/ApplicationBriefs/Attachments/58/Flexible%20Termination%20Technology%20(FT-CAP).pdf)

Forum [HERE](http://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1037-solving-ceramic-capacitor-cracking/)

Podcast: [Download](http://www.eevblog.org/video/EEVblog1037-MLCCdesign-1280x720.mp4 "Download")