Calculation of stresses in plasma-deposited amorphous metallic coatings

The stresses in deposited amorphous metallic coatings prepared from quenched amorphous alloys are calculated. The calculations are performed under the assumption that amorphous coatings on a substrate can be considered glass seals with an elastic solid, for which available methods of calculating stresses work fairly well. It is shown that calculations based on such an approach can be useful in choosing the parameters and conditions for producing coatings and in predicting their service properties.