It is demonstrated that nonlinear properties of a thin film coating a lrnear elastic substrate may lead to the creation of a new type of surface acoustic waves which may exist at the condition c: cc:, where c, and crare the velocities in the substrate and the film, respectively. These waves appear when the amplitude at the surface exceeds a certain threshold value and for a definite sign of the...

An analysis of delamination for a thin elastic film, attached to a substrate a corner, is carried out. The film is in compression and the analysis is performed by combining results from fracture mechanics and the theory of thin shells. The results show a very strong dependency of the angle of the corner. In contrast with earlier results for delamination on a flat substrate, the present problem ...

Indentat~on technque was used to characterize the mechanical properties (elastic modulus, hardness and toughness) both of PVD coatmgs and autocatallt~c chem~cal deposition ones. TIN and TiCN films m ere respectively depos~ted on a duple.: s t adess steel substrate using PVD technque. moreover a Nip films (P content about 8O6) and a NIPIB,C composite ones were used as comparison materials The ef...

Delamination of residually stressed thin film strips is analyzed to expose the dependence on strip width and filmysubstrate elastic mismatch. Isotropic films and substrates are assumed. The residual stress in the film is tensile and assumed to originate from mismatch due to thermal expansion or epitaxial deposition. Full and partial delamination modes are explored. In full delamination, the int...

The motion of an elastic body over a rough surface is simulated in one dimension using Newtonian dynamics. We drive the body by prescribing a constant velocity. We extract the friction force from the work done by the applied force in order to maintain the motion of the body. A positive amount of work is needed because energy is converted into the internal elastic degrees of freedom of the body....

Nanoindentation tests using the Berkovich indenter tip were performed on 50 and 200 nm thick polycrystalline gold films deposited on hard substrates. Gold film hardness increased with the indentation depth due to the influence of the substrate. A procedure based on the Joslin-Oliver method was introduced to correct for the substrate effect. The method utilizes the fact that the measured elastic...