The Analysis of Resistance to Brittle Cracking of Tungsten Doped TiB2 Coatings Obtained by Magnetron Sputtering

Autor: Sylwia Sowa, Artur Piasek, Jerzy Smolik, Joanna Kacprzyńska-Gołacka
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Coatings
Volume 10
Issue 9
Coatings, Vol 10, Iss 807, p 807 (2020)
ISSN: 2079-6412
Popis: In this work, the authors present the possibility of characterization of the fracture toughness in mode I (KIC) for TiB2 and TiB2 coatings doped with different concentration of W (3%, 6% and 10%). The Young&rsquo
s modulus, hardness and fracture toughness of this coatings are extracted from nanoindentation experiments. The fracture toughness was evaluated using calculation of crack length measurement. An important observation is that increasing tungsten concentration in the range 0&ndash
10% changes the microstructure of the investigated coatings: from columnar structure for TiB2 coating to nano-composite structure for Ti-B-W (10%) coating. It can be concluded that doping with concentration 10 at.% W causes an increase of the fracture toughness for the tested coatings.
Databáze: OpenAIRE