Recent advancements in electronics have renewed the interest in high strain rate
nanoindentation testing, resulting in the development of new high strain rate …

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 …

A new testing system and techniques for measuring the hardness of materials subjected to
very high indentation strain rates up to 104 s− 1 is presented. This was accomplished by …

Indentation is a simple and one of the oldest small-scale test methods for characterizing the
mechanical response of materials. Recently, there has been a growing interest in dynamic …

Understanding the deformation and fracture behavior of single crystal silicon carbide (SiC)
under a single particle is of scientific and practical importance for the micromachining of …

Constitutive models can fail to predict high-rate deformation behavior due to their inability to
account for microstructural effects. In part, this is because of a dearth of experimental …

The flow stress of a material can be strongly dependent on the rate of applied strain.
Measuring the strain rate sensitivity can reveal key insights into the mechanisms that drive …

As a fundamental test technique for the mechanical properties of materials, indentation
shows broad application prospects. Compared to the well-studied quasi-static indentation …

The study reveals a size effect in deformation mechanisms via unique structural transitions
in sputter deposited fcc/bcc nanolayers under high strain rate impact nanoindentation as …

Abstract The Mg-Er binary system, as a new lightweight alloy material system with important
research value and prospects for development and application, has attracted much attention …