Correlation between dislocation density and nanomechanical response during nanoindentation

A Barnoush - Acta materialia, 2012 - Elsevier
The crucial role of dislocations in the nanomechanical response of high-purity aluminum
was studied. The dislocation density in cold-worked aluminum is characterized by means of …

Conditions of applying Oliver–Pharr method to the nanoindentation of particles in composites

W Yan, CL Pun, GP Simon - Composites Science and Technology, 2012 - Elsevier
The indentation test is a popular experimental method to measure a material's mechanical
properties such as elastic modulus and hardness, and the Oliver–Pharr method is commonly …

Characterization of stress-strain relationships of elastoplastic materials: An improved method with conical and pyramidal indenters

ZS Ma, YC Zhou, SG Long, XL Zhong, C Lu - Mechanics of Materials, 2012 - Elsevier
The load-displacement curve in indentation is widely used to extract elastoplastic properties
of materials. It is believed that such a measurement is non-unique and a full stress-strain …

Effects of composition and thermal annealing on the mechanical properties of silicon oxycarbide films

P Du, X Wang, IK Lin, X Zhang - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2012 - Elsevier
There is an increasing trend to incorporate silicon carbide (SiC) into silicon oxides to
improve the mechanical properties, thermal stability, and chemical resistance. In this work …

An inverse approach for extracting elastic–plastic properties of thin films from small scale sharp indentation

ZS Ma, YC Zhou, SG Long, CS Lu - Journal of Materials Science & …, 2012 - Elsevier
An inverse method for extracting the elastic-plastic properties of metallic thin films from
instrumented sharp indentation has been proposed in terms of dimensional analysis and …

Uncertainties and errors in nanoindentation

J Menčík - Nanoindentation in Materials Science, 2012 - books.google.com
Nanoindentation provides information on mechanical properties by calculation from indenter
load and displacement. The basic formulae for these computations are based on certain …

Mechanical properties of BixSb2− xTe3 nanostructured thermoelectric material

G Li, KR Gadelrab, T Souier, PL Potapov… - …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Research on thermoelectric (TE) materials has been focused on their transport properties in
order to maximize their overall performance. Mechanical properties, which are crucial for …

Cross-sectional residual stresses in thermal spray coatings measured by moiré interferometry and nanoindentation technique

J Zhu, H Xie, Z Hu, P Chen, Q Zhang - Journal of thermal spray technology, 2012 - Springer
A plasma-sprayed thermal barrier coating (TBC) was deposited on a stainless steel
substrate. The residual stresses were firstly measured by moiré interferometry combined …

Influence of the residual stress on the nanoindentation-evaluated hardness for zirconiumnitride films

QN Meng, M Wen, CQ Hu, SM Wang, K Zhang… - Surface and Coatings …, 2012 - Elsevier
The influence of the residual stress on the evaluated hardness and modulus for zirconium
nitride films has been investigated using nanoindentation experiments in this work, and a …

On the evaluation of residual stress and mechanical properties of FeCrBSi coatings by nanoindentation

L Zhu, B Xu, H Wang, C Wang - Materials Science and Engineering: A, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper, the residual stress in the plasma-sprayed FeCrBSi coating was determined by
nanoindentation and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The XRD results showed that tensile residual …