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The compliance of a film on a substrate of another material, under purely elastic indentation, is discussed. Formulae are proposed for estimates of its value in terms of film thickness and the elastic moduli of the components. The possible applications to nanoindentation and determination of elastic properties of thin films from the unloading curves are not investigated here.
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