Growth-Induced Stress in Hard Coating

Abstract

Coating and gradient structure can improve the quality of products, but growth-induced stress generates in the forming process of the coating and the gradient structure due to the existence of the defects and metastable phase. The existence of growth-induced stress can conversely affect the quality of the product, even lead to cracking and product failure. This paper shows the model of stress calculation according to the crystal structure’s defect theory.