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Knowledge about the adhesion of protective hard coatings on tool materials is of great importance to understand their failure mechanisms in metalworking. Until now, common techniques such as scratch and indentation tests are used to establish a qualitative ranking of a coating’s adhesion on various substrate materials. Nevertheless, there is a lack of quantitative measures to describe the strength of the interfaces between individual microstructural constituents of substrate-coating composites. The current work investigates the interfacial strength and thus the adhesion of TiN deposited as a hard coating on an MC-type carbide, an M₆C-type carbide and on martensite being constituents of high speed steels. Tensile stresses were introduced at the interface between TiN and the individual microstructural constituents of a high speed steel via micromechanical testing of a novel MSC specimen within a scanning …