Contact area determination in indentation testing of elastomers

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 736-748

  Deuschle, Julia K ^a   Deuschle, H Matthias ^b   Enders, Susan ^a,c   Arzt, Eduard ^a,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d INM LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEW MATERIALS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTACT AREAS; CONTACT SIZES; DYNAMIC INDENTATIONS; ERROR SOURCES; FINITE-ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IN-SITU; IN-SITU TESTING; INDENTATION TESTING; SILICONE ELASTOMERS; VISCO-ELASTIC MATERIALS; VISCOELASTIC EFFECTS;

ELASTOMERS; POLYMERS; RUBBER; SILICONES;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 63149169623     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2009.0093     Document Type: Article

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