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Title

Fracture toughness determination of arc-PVD and HiPIMS hard coatings by micro-cantilever and pillar splitting tests

Authors

Johannes Ast, Innovation Centre of Nanotechnology and Correlative Microscopy, GermanyFollow
Jan-Philipp Liebig, Walter AG
Silke Christiansen, INAM, Innovation Centre of Nanotechnology and Correlative Microscopy
Johann Michler, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland
Veit Schier, Walter AG

Conference Dates

September 29-October 4, 2019

Abstract

We performed small-scale in-situ fracture experiments in a scanning electron microscope (SEM) using micro-pillar splitting and micro-cantilever bending technique to determine the fracture toughness of five different arc-PVD and HiPIMS (Al,Ti)N hard coatings. All coatings showed brittle fracture with slightly different fracture toughness. In this talk, we discuss on the one hand side the observed differences in the fracture behavior, which are based on the coating microstructure, which depends on the deposition parameters and techniques. Furthermore we want to investigate as to how small-scale fracture techniques can be used as tool to provide necessary information on the lifetime of hard coatings as protection of cutting tool.

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Recommended Citation

Johannes Ast, Jan-Philipp Liebig, Silke Christiansen, Johann Michler, and Veit Schier, "Fracture toughness determination of arc-PVD and HiPIMS hard coatings by micro-cantilever and pillar splitting tests" in "Nanomechanical Testing in Materials Research and Development VII", Jon Molina-Aldareguia, IMDEA-Materials Institute, Spain Eds, ECI Symposium Series, (2019). https://dc.engconfintl.org/nanochemtest_vii/120