Analysis of spherical indentations of coating-substrate systems: Experiments and finite element modeling

Materials and Design

Volumn 43, Issue , 2013, Pages 99-111

  Kot, Marcin ^a   Rakowski, Wiesław ^a   Lackner, Juergen M ^b   Major, Łukasz ^c  

^a AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b JOANNEUM RESEARCH   (Austria)

^c INSTITUTE OF METALLURGY AND MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Coatings; Contact stresses; Finite element modeling; Spherical indentation

Indexed keywords

COATED SURFACE; COATING-SUBSTRATE SYSTEMS; COMPLEX PROCEDURE; CONTACT LOAD; CONTACT STRESS; CRITICAL STRESS; DEPTH CURVE; ELASTIC-PLASTIC; FEM MODELING; FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; FINITE-ELEMENT METHOD MODELING; INDENTATION EXPERIMENT; LOAD-BEARING CAPACITY; RESULT ANALYSIS; SPHERICAL INDENTATIONS; STEEL SUBSTRATE; SURFACE LAYERS; THIN COATING; TIN COATING;

COATINGS; EXPERIMENTS; FRACTURE; INDENTATION; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; STRESS-STRAIN CURVES; TITANIUM NITRIDE;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 84864028218     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2012.06.040     Document Type: Article

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