Plasticity, healing and shakedown in sharp-asperity nanoindentation

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 370-376

  Cross, Graham L W ^a   Schirmeisen, André ^b   Grütter, Peter ^c   Dürig, Urs T ^d  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); CANTILEVER BEAMS; INDENTATION; PLASTICITY; PROBES; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

INDENTATION CYCLING; RATCHETING; SHAKEDOWN; TIP CONTACT;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 33646485536     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1632     Document Type: Article

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