Indenter tip radius effect on the Nix-Gao relation in micro- and nanoindentation hardness experiments

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 3423-3434

  Qu, S ^a   Huang, Y ^a   Nix, W D ^b   Jiang, H ^a   Zhang, F ^c   Hwang, K C ^c  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROHARDNESS; PLASTICITY; STRAIN RATE; STRESS ANALYSIS;

INDENTER TIP RADIUS EFFECT; MICROINDENTATION HARDNESS; NANOINDENTATION HARDNESS; TAYLOR DISLOCATION MODEL;

INDENTATION;

EID: 11244347771     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/JMR.2004.0441     Document Type: Article

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