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Contact fracture of brittle bilayer coatings on soft substrates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Pedro Miranda ,
Antonia Pajares ,
Fernando Guiberteau ,
Francisco L. Cumbrera  and
Brian R. Lawn
Pedro Miranda
Affiliation:
Departamento Electroónica e Ingeniería Electromecánica, Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales, Universidad de Extremadura, 06071 Badajoz, Spain
Antonia Pajares
Affiliation:
Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Extremadura, 06071 Badajoz, Spain
Fernando Guiberteau
Affiliation:
Departamento Electrónica e Ingeniería Electromecánica, Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales, Universidad de Extremadura, 06071 Badajoz, Spain
Francisco L. Cumbrera
Affiliation:
Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Extremadura, 06071 Badajoz, Spain
Brian R. Lawn
Affiliation:
Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899
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Abstract

Contact-induced fracture modes in trilayers consisting of a brittle bilayer coating on a soft substrate were investigated. Experiments were performed on model transparent glass/sapphire/polycarbonate structures bonded with epoxy adhesive, to enable in situ observation during the contact. Individual layer surfaces were preferentially abraded to introduce uniform flaw states and so allowed each crack type to be studied separately and controllably. Fracture occurred by cone cracking at the glass top surface or by radial cracking at the glass or sapphire bottom surfaces. Critical loads for each crack type were measured, for fixed glass thickness and several specified sapphire thicknesses. Finite element modeling (FEM) was used to evaluate the critical load data for radial cracking, using as essential input material parameters evaluated from characterization tests on constituent materials and supplemental glass/polymer and sapphirse/polymer bilayer structures. The FEM calculations demonstrated pronounced stress transfer from the applied contact to the underlying sapphire layer, explaining a tendency for preferred fracture of this relatively stiff component. Factors affecting the design of optimal trilayer structures for maximum fracture resistance of practical layer systems were considered.

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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , January 2001 , pp. 115 - 126
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2001

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