Modeling conical indentation in homogeneous materials and in hard films on soft substrates

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 521-528

  Ni, Wangyang ^a,b   Cheng, Yang Tse ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; FILMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HARDNESS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASTICITY; SOLIDS; SUBSTRATES;

CONICAL INDENTATION; DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS; FILM THICKNESS; HARD FILMS; SOFT SUBSTRATES;

INDENTATION;

EID: 28044465721     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/JMR.2005.0071     Document Type: Article

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