Composite and Real Hardnesses of Thin Coatings

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The paper presents the results of an analysis of the mechanics of contact between a rigid sphere and an elastic rigidly plastic two-layer half-space that imitates a surface covered with a hard strengthening coating. Analytical dependences are derived which relate the surface hardness to the base and coating hard¬nesses within the whole possible range of the coating thickness. A new physical interpretation of the mechanism of the deformation of a layered solid is proposed for the range of the indentation depth that commonly characterizes the domain of the existence of the composite hardness. The obtained theoretical solutions are used to determine the ranges of the thicknesses within which the composite and real hardnesses of a hardened surface exist.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 560-561)

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803-808

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August 2012

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