Advances in the measurement of hardness at high strain rates by nanoindentation

BL Hackett, P Sudharshan Phani, CC Walker… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - Springer
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 …

Measurement of mechanical properties by ultra-low load indentation

GM Pharr - Materials Science and Engineering: A, 1998 - Elsevier
Ultra-low load indentation, also known as nanoindentation, is a widely used tool for
measuring the mechanical properties of thin films and small volumes of material. One of the …

Ultra high strain rate nanoindentation testing

P Sudharshan Phani, WC Oliver - Materials, 2017 - mdpi.com
Strain rate dependence of indentation hardness has been widely used to study time-
dependent plasticity. However, the currently available techniques limit the range of strain …

Elastic loading and elastoplastic unloading from nanometer level indentations for modulus determinations

WW Gerberich, W Yu, D Kramer, A Strojny… - Journal of materials …, 1998 - cambridge.org
A new method for evaluating modulus and hardness from nanoindentation
load/displacement curves is presented. As a spherical indenter penetrates an elastoplastic …

Nanoindentation techniques

SP Baker - Encyclopedia of materials: Science and …, 2001 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
The term" nanoindentation" refers to depth-sensing indentation (DSI) techniques used to
obtain mechanical properties from very small volumes of material. In a traditional indentation …

Critical issues in making small-depth mechanical property measurements by nanoindentation with continuous stiffness measurement

GM Pharr, JH Strader, WC Oliver - Journal of Materials Research, 2009 - cambridge.org
Experiments were performed on a (100) copper single crystal to examine the influences that
small displacement oscillations used in continuous stiffness measurement techniques have …

Dynamic nanoindentation testing: is there an influence on a material's hardness?

A Leitner, V Maier-Kiener, D Kiener - Materials research letters, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Modern nanoindentation devices are capable of dynamic experimentations, which allow us
to exploit instrumented hardness tests extensively. Beside the assets of recording …

Nanoscale mechanical property measurements using modified atomic force microscopy

AV Kulkarni, B Bhushan - Thin Solid Films, 1996 - Elsevier
A new nanoindenter using AFM has been used for hardness and elastic modulus
measurements with indentation depths as low as about 2 nm. The new indenter system is …

Nanoindentation in materials research: Past, present, and future

WC Oliver, GM Pharr - Mrs Bulletin, 2010 - Springer
The method we introduced in 1992 for measuring hardness and elastic modulus by
nanoindentation testing has been widely adopted and used in the characterization of …

Indenter geometry effects on the measurement of mechanical properties by nanoindentation with sharp indenters

TY Tsui, WC Oliver, GM Pharr - MRS Online Proceedings Library …, 1996 - cambridge.org
The measurement of mechanical properties by nanoindentation methods is most often
conducted using indenters with the Berkovich geometry (a triangular pyramid) or with a …