Equilibrium depth and spacing of cracks in a tensile residual stressed thin film deposited on a brittle substrate

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 589-596

  Zhang, Tong Yi ^a   Zhao, Ming Hao ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Crack; Critical thickness; Thin films

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CRACKS; RESIDUAL STRESSES; SUBSTRATES; TENSILE STRENGTH; THERMODYNAMICS; THIN FILMS;

BRITTLE SUBSTRATES;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

CRACK; FILM; FRACTURE MECHANICS; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0037040754     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7944(01)00098-4     Document Type: Article

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