Micro-and nanoindentation techniques for mechanical characterisation of materials

NK Mukhopadhyay, P Paufler - International materials …, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
Indentation techniques have been extensively used for mechanical characterisation of
materials. Development of instrumented indentation techniques at low and ultra low load …

High-throughput nanoindentation for statistical and spatial property determination

ED Hintsala, U Hangen, DD Stauffer - Jom, 2018 - Springer
Standard nanoindentation tests are “high throughput” compared to nearly all other
mechanical tests, such as tension or compression. However, the typical rates of tens of tests …

Study on mechanical properties of the interfacial transition zone in carbon nanofiber-reinforced cement mortar based on the PeakForce tapping mode of atomic force …

T Shi, Y Liu, X Zhao, J Wang, Z Zhao, DJ Corr… - Journal of Building …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, the PeakForce quantitative Nanoscale Mechanical Characterization (PF-QNM)
mode was used to explore the micro-zone mechanical properties of the interfacial transition …

Statistical indentation techniques for hydrated nanocomposites: concrete, bone, and shale

FJ Ulm, M Vandamme, C Bobko… - Journal of the …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Concrete, bone and shale have one thing in common: their load‐bearing mineral phase is a
hydrated nanocomposite. Yet the link between material genesis, microstructure, and …

Surface roughness criteria for cement paste nanoindentation

M Miller, C Bobko, M Vandamme, FJ Ulm - Cement and Concrete …, 2008 - Elsevier
Analysis of nanoindentation experiments assumes that the indentation occurs on a flat
surface. As a result, the accuracy of nanoindentation depends on reducing the surface …

The nano-mechanical morphology of shale

C Bobko, FJ Ulm - Mechanics of Materials, 2008 - Elsevier
Shale, the sealing formations in most hydrocarbon reservoirs, is made of highly compacted
clay particles of sub-micrometer size, nanometric porosity and different mineralogy. In this …

The role of friction on sharp indentation

M Mata, J Alcala - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2004 - Elsevier
Frictional effects on sharp indentation of strain hardening solids are examined in this paper.
The results of finite element simulations in a wide range of solids allow us to derive two …

Mechanical properties of cubic zinc carboxylate IRMOF-1 metal-organic framework crystals

DF Bahr, JA Reid, WM Mook, CA Bauer, R Stumpf… - Physical Review B …, 2007 - APS
The recently developed class of nanoporous materials known as metal-organic frameworks
(MOFs) is generating considerable interest because of their potential in sensing, storage …

Comparison of three different deconvolution methods for analyzing nanoindentation test data of hydrated cement paste

Z Zhang, J Qin, Z Ma, X Pang, Y Zhou - Cement and Concrete Composites, 2023 - Elsevier
The micromechanical properties of hydrated cement paste were investigated by
nanoindentation with a large data set (4000 indentation points) to reveal the influences of …

A comparison of nanoindentation pile-up in bulk materials and thin films

N Moharrami, SJ Bull - Thin Solid Films, 2014 - Elsevier
During nanoindentation testing, there are many issues that need to be considered if high-
quality data are to be obtained when testing both bulk and thin film materials. For soft …