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Accurate calculation of the mechanical properties of the coatings needs finding out the sources of errors. One of the important sources of errors is the presence of pre-existing defect along the interface. In this study we consider elastic–plastic coating on elastic–plastic substrate system and the cohesive zone model embedded in the finite element code is used to simulate the interface between coating...