in-situ Young's moduli of the constitutive layers in a multilayer systems (e.g. thin films, SOFCs, TBCs etc.)

This recent article present an improved methodology to calculate in-situ Young's moduli of the constitutive layers in a multilayer systems (e.g. thin films, SOFCs, TBCs etc.)

Pandey, A., Shyam, A., Liu, Z., & Goettler, R. (2014). In-situ Young’s Moduli of the Constitutive Layers in a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell. Journal of Power Sources.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378775314015341 

Highlights

•A methodology to determine the modulus of functional layers in SOFCs is reported.

•In-situ Young's modulus for various functional layers is reported.

•The proposed testing methodology could be applied for other multilayer systems.