Nature of contact deformation of TiN films on steel

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2616-2624

  Bhowmick, S ^a   Xie, Z H ^b   Hoffman, M ^b   Jayaram, V ^a   Biswas, S K ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTOPLASTICITY; FRACTURE; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; INDENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSTRUCTURE; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; SHEAR STRESS; STEEL; THICK FILMS;

CONTACT DEFORMATION; ELASTIC DEFORMATION; NANOINDENTATION; SHEAR FRACTURE;

TITANIUM NITRIDE;

EID: 6044273862     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/JMR.2004.0339     Document Type: Article

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