Figure 4.
The basic geometries of unit thickness used for the calculations in this paper. The substrate is of thickness H and the film is of thickness h. (a) An uncracked slice of material of width W from which uo(W) is calculated. (b) The same element with a crack of depth a in the middle, from which uc(a, W) is calculated. (c) A crack with an internal pressure, corresponding to the stress field in the uncracked configuration, from which uo(W) − uc(a, W) is calculated directly.