“…The accuracy of this method is primarily related to the absence of third body interactions, such as indentercoating friction in case of scratch and indentation tests, or adherent-coating traction in case of peel and pull-out tests. The topic of multiple cracking of coatings on high elongation substrates (and matrices in composite laminates) has motivated a considerable amount of work, for instance to obtain statistical strength parameters from crack spacing distributions (Hui et al, 1999;Leterrier et al, 1997a,b;Ochiai et al, 2007) and layer toughness (Kim and Nairn, 2000;Nairn, 2000). Prior analyses of experimental data, however, are limited to single coatings (Andersons et al, 2007;Handge, 2002;Handge et al, 2000;Howells et al, 2008;Hsueh and Yanaka, 2003;Leterrier et al, 2004;Tang et al, 2001;Yanaka et al, 1999).…”