Critical issues in making small-depth mechanical property measurements by nanoindentation with continuous stiffness measurement

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 653-666

  Pharr, G M ^a,b   Strader, J H ^a   Oliver, W C ^c  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTACT STIFFNESS; CONTINUOUS STIFFNESS MEASUREMENTS; CRITICAL ISSUES; DYNAMIC UNLOADING; ELASTIC-PLASTIC MATERIALS; HARDNESS RATIOS; INDENTATION SIZE EFFECTS; LOADING AND UNLOADING; MEASURED PROPERTIES; MECHANICAL PROPERTY MEASUREMENTS; MODULUS MEASUREMENTS; NANOINDENTATION EXPERIMENTS; OSCILLATION AMPLITUDES; PENETRATION DEPTHS; SIMPLE MODELS; SMALL DISPLACEMENTS;

ERRORS; HARDNESS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NANOINDENTATION; SINGLE CRYSTALS; UNLOADING;

STIFFNESS;

EID: 63149179237     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2009.0096     Document Type: Article

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