READ ME File For 'Dataset: Investigation of fatigue performance of tin-based multilayer coatings with varying locations of an intermetallic sublayer' Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D1399 ReadMe Author: Songsong Lu, University of Southampton [https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7591-434X] This dataset supports the publication: AUTHORS: Songsong Lu, Richard Cook, Yi Zhang, Philippa Reed TITLE: Investigating the fatigue performance of soft multilayer coatings with varying locations of an intermetallic interlayer JOURNAL: International Journal of Fatigue PAPER DOI IF KNOWN: This dataset contains: The data of following figures The figures are as follows: Fig. 5 The effect of tin based layer’s thickness on the Ra of Tin-Top layer’s top surface and interfaces between tin based layer and IML layer. Fig. 8 Grain size of tin along the length direction in different tin based layers with the effect of thickness of tin layer and IML-Top layer, where the location of the intermediate IML-Top layer is increasingly closer to the top surface going from A to D with an unvaried thickness of IML-Top layer (denoted by M). Fig. 9 (a) Pmax/ΔƐ-N curve for 2IML multilayer coatings with different IML-Top layer’s location, where the location of IML-Top layer is away from top surface from A to D, (b) The effect of IML-Top layer’s location on the fatigue performance. Note: The Tin-Top layer’s thickness represents the location of the intermediate IML-Top Layer as its thickness does not vary. Fig. 11 The effect of IML-Top layer’s location on the density of Type B cracks. Note: The Tin-Top layer’s thickness was used to represent the location of IML-Top Layer quantitatively as the thickness of IML-Top layer in all 2IML multilayer coatings are similar. Fig. 12 The ultimate tensile strength (UTS) and yield strength (YS) of Ni/Sn multilayer composite versus bilayer thickness. Note: This multilayer composite is the repeating of a same bilayer architecture (composed by a Nickel layer and a Tin layer with a constant thickness ratio). [21] Fig. 14 Percentage of surface cracks in 2IML multilayer coatings with different location of IML-Top layer. Date of data collection: 2018.1-2020.8 Information about geographic location of data collection: University of Southampton Licence: CC BY Related projects: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC, EP/M50662X/1) Date that the file was created: 12, 2020