Abstract
An analysis is made of contact damage in brittle coatings on metal substrates, using a case study of a dental porcelain coating of thickness between 0.1 and 1 mm fused onto a Pd alloy base, with spherical indenter of radii 2.38 and 3.98 mm. At large coating thicknesses (>300 mu m), the first damage takes the form of surface-initiated transverse cone cracks outside the contact. At small coating thicknesses (
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 676-682 |
| Journal | Journal of Materials Research |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2000 |