This article reviews recent literature on polymer nanocomposites using advanced
indentation techniques to evaluate the surface mechanical properties down to the nanoscale …

Although instrumented nanoindentation testing has been used to characterize the
mechanical properties of materials since the 1970s, the vast majority of the research …

Nanoindentation experiments were performed on neat and in situ polymers in two different
composite materials (IM7/977-3 and AS4/APC-2) and an adhesive (FM 300). The objective …

It is well known that a clear disparity exists between the elastic modulus determined using
macroscopic tensile testing of polymers and those determined using nanoindentation, with …

In this paper, the application of instrumented indentation devices to the measurement of the
elastic modulus of polymeric materials is reviewed. This review includes a summary of …

In this article, we present a quantitative stiffness imaging technique and demonstrate its use
to directly map the dynamic mechanical properties of materials with nanometer-scale lateral …

In recent decades, nanoindentation has emerged as a useful experimental technique for
characterising the in situ properties of fibrous composite constituents. However, the elastic …

The application of depth sensing nanoindentation to determine mechanical properties of
three different polymers is described in this work using three different techniques to calibrate …

The present study investigated the effects of adhesion on the elastic modulus determined
from nanoindentation curves for soft polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) elastomers with five …

Nanoindentation testing was used to determine the dynamic viscoelastic properties of eight
polymer materials, which include three high-performance polymers and five densities of high …