The strain-rate sensitivity of the hardness in indentation creep

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 926-936

  Elmustafa, A A ^a,b   Kose, S ^c   Stone, D S ^d  

^a Old Dominion University   (United States)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREEP; ELASTIC DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HARDNESS; PLASTIC FLOW; STRAIN HARDENING; STRAIN RATE;

CONE-SHAPED INDENTER; STRAIN-RATE SENSITIVITY;

INDENTATION;

EID: 34247385418     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2007.0107     Document Type: Article

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