Contact area and size effects in discrete dislocation modeling of wedge indentation

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 655-663

  Widjaja, Andreas ^a   Van der Giessen, Erik ^a   Deshpande, Vikram S ^b   Needleman, Alan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; HARDNESS; INDENTATION; NUCLEATION; PLASTICITY;

DISCRETE DISLOCATION MODELING; PLAIN STRAIN INDENTATION;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

EID: 33947235523     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2007.0090     Document Type: Article

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