We provide an overview of the basic concepts of scaling and dimensional analysis, followed
by a review of some of the recent work on applying these concepts to modeling instrumented …

Viscoelasticity is a complex yet important phenomenon that drives material response at
different scales of time and space. Burgeoning interest in nanoscale dynamic material …

The degradable nature of high-performance, wood-based materials is an attractive
advantage when considering environmental factors such as sustainability, recycling, and …

Instrumented indentation, also known as depth-sensing indentation or nanoindentation, is
increasingly being used to probe the mechanical response of materials from metals and …

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 …

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 …

The creep compliance of viscoelastic materials such as synthetic polymers is an established
metric of the rate at which strain increases for a constant applied stress and can, in principle …

With polypropylene as a prototype viscoelastic material at room temperature, it was found
that a “nose” may appear in the unloading segment of the load–displacement curve during …

Agar is a biological polymer, frequently used in tissue engineering research; due to its
consistency, controllable size, and concentration-based properties, it often serves as a …

The review covers the understanding of the nanostructure development in glassy and
semicrystalline polymers as revealed by indentation hardness methods. The microhardness …