Measuring the uniaxial creep response from nanoindentation has been of great interest to
the small scale mechanics community. However, several experimental and modeling …

A constrained compression test is developed to replicate the mechanical state of a lithium
filament within a solid state battery. Lithium microspheres are compressed between parallel …

Nanoindentation technique at low temperatures have developed from initial micro-hardness
driving method at a single temperature to modern depth-sensing indentation (DSI) method …

An instrument capable of performing nanoindentation at temperatures up to 500 C in inert
atmospheres, including partial vacuum and gas near atmospheric pressures, is described …

Thermal assistance is considered a potentially effective approach to improve the
machinability of hard and brittle materials. Understanding the material removal and friction …

In this paper, mechanical properties of RB-SiC ceramics, such as hardness, elastic modulus
and fracture toughness, are characterized through indentation technique using a Vickers …

A small strain two-dimensional discrete dislocation plasticity framework coupled to vacancy
diffusion is developed wherein the motion of edge dislocations is by a combination of glide …

Abstract The microstructure of Mg-Al-Ca alloys consists of a hard intra-and intergranular
eutectic Laves phase network embedded in a soft α-Mg matrix. For such heterogeneous …

A small-strain two-dimensional discrete dislocation plasticity (DDP) framework is developed
wherein dislocation motion is caused by climb-assisted glide. The climb motion of the …

Nanoindentation is a widespread and useful method for evaluating mechanical properties at
the sub-micron length scale. However, the indentation size effect remains a major obstacle …