Abstract
Evaluation of the plasticity effects in fracture along ductile/brittle interfaces requires appropriate models for plastic dissipation in a ductile component. For thin ductile films, constitutive properties appropriate to the small volumes involved are essential for adequate modeling. Here, yield stress is of primary importance. With nanoindentation, one can obtain both a large strain flow stress as well as the far field yield stress representing the small strain elastic-plastic boundary. Using these to estimate an appropriate plastic strain energy density, the crack tip plastic energy dissipation rates associated with the interfacial crack extension can be estimated for a ductile film. With the preceding analysis, plasticity effects on the interfacial toughness have been evaluated for external measures of strain energy release rates as obtained from indentation tests using the axisymmetric bilayer theory. Comparison involved RF sputtered 200- to 2000-nm-thick Cu interlayers between oxidized silicon and sputtered tungsten. Experimental values for the Cu/SiO2 interface increased with Cu film thickness from 1 to 15 J/m2. This was in qualitative agreement with the theoretical predictions for plastic energy dissipation rates. In contrast, first-order estimates suggest that the observed interfacial toughness increases cannot be attributed to either mode mixity effects or increased intrinsic interfacial fracture energies. As such, crack tip plasticity is identified as the dominant mechanism for increasing interfacial toughness.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 863-872 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A: Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 13 |
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| State | Published - 2000 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We would like to thank Prof Chang Zengyi of Peking University for the opportunity to conduct some of the experiments in his laboratory. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41271485), the Special Fund for Agro-scientific Research in the Public Interest, China (201303095-8), and 2015 Jilin Province Outstanding Postdoctoral Research Fund (Y7D7061001).
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Received for publication April 20, 2017. Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130012, China. We would like to thank Prof Chang Zengyi of Peking University for the opportunity to conduct some of the experiments in his laboratory. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41271485), the Special Fund for Agro-scientific Research in the Public Interest, China (201303095-8), and 2015 Jilin Province Outstanding Postdoctoral Research Fund (Y7D7061001). 1These authors contributed equally to this work. 2E-mails: [email protected] and [email protected]. This paper was edited by Raquel Campos-Herrera.