READ ME File For 'Dataset: Effect on overall fatigue performance of varying thickness of an intermetallic sublayer within a soft multilayer coating' Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D1574 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: Effect on overall fatigue performance of varying thickness of an intermetallic sublayer within a soft multilayer coating JOURNAL: International Journal of Fatigue PAPER DOI IF KNOWN: This dataset contains: The data of following figures The figures are as follows: Fig. 4 The effect of IML-Top layer’s thickness on the (a) Ra, (b) Rku and (c) Rsk of interfaces in 4-layered coating architectures related to IML-Top layer. Fig. 6 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. 7 Relationship between the maximum load in cyclic loads and the total strain range Fig. 8 (a) ΔƐ-N curve for 2IML multilayer coatings with different IML-Top layer thicknesses, where the thickness of IML-Top layer increases from S to L. (b) The effect of IML-Top layer thickness on the fatigue performance. Note: The Tin-Top layer thickness is similar in the 2IML-B-S and the 2IML-A-M multilayer coatings. Fig. 11 Percentage of subsurface cracks observed in cross-sections in 2IML multilayer coatings with different thickness 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: 1, 2021