A critical examination of the relationship between plastic deformation zone size and Young's modulus to hardness ratio in indentation testing

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2617-2627

  Chen, J ^a   Bull, S J ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARDNESS RATIO; INDENTATION TESTING; PLASTIC DEFORMATION ZONE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULI; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HARDENING; HARDNESS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASTIC DEFORMATION;

INDENTATION;

EID: 33749836978     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2006.0323     Document Type: Article

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