Deformation at high strain rates often results in high stresses on many engineering
materials, potentially leading to catastrophic failure without proper design. High-strain-rate …

Nanoindentation has become ubiquitous for the measurement of mechanical properties at
ever-decreasing scales of interest, including some studies that have explored the atomic …

Current methods to measure the theoretical shear strength of metals using nanoindentation
often present a stochastic view of the applied stresses needed to nucleate dislocations. In …

Nanoindentation has become a commonplace tool for the measurement of mechanical
properties at small scales, but may have even greater importance as a technique for …

The dislocation nucleation stress of crystalline materials is frequently estimated from the
maximum shear stress, assuming Hertzian contact up to the first “pop-in” event, which is a …

The mechanical testing technique for in situ nanoindentation in a transmission electron
microscope is described and is shown to provide real-time observations of the mechanisms …

Nucleation and kinetics of defects at the atomic scale provide the most fundamental
information about the mechanical response of materials and surfaces. Recent advances in …

For a better mechanistic understanding of the deformation phenomena that occur during
nanoindentation testing, complimentary experimental techniques are critical. This overview …

A new method has been developed to achieve a better understanding of submicron indent-
induced plastic deformation. This method combines numerical modeling and various …

Molecular dynamics simulation is used to identify and quantify the initial plastic deformation
mechanisms of gold as a model face-centered cubic (fcc) metal in the nanoindentation …