[PDF] Scratching as a fracture process: from butter to steel. | Semantic Scholar
@article{Akono2011ScratchingAA, title={Scratching as a fracture process: from butter to steel.}, author={Ange- Therese Akono and Pedro M. Reis and Franz-Josef Ulm}, journal={Physical review letters}, year={2011}, volume={106 20}, pages={ 204302 }, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:1176619} }
A model is derived that provides a quantitative means to relate quantities measured in scratch tests to fracture properties of materials at multiple scales and opens new venues towards miniaturization of the technique.