The correlation between the internal material length scale and the microstructure in nanoindentation experiments and simulations using the conventional mechanism-based strain gradient plasticity theory

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1197-1207

  Backes, Bjoem ^a   Huang, Y Y ^b   Goken M ^a   Durst, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISLOCATION DENSITIES; INPUT DATUM; LENGTH SCALE PARAMETERS; LOAD-DISPLACEMENT CURVES; MATERIAL LENGTH SCALE; MECHANISM-BASED STRAIN GRADIENT PLASTICITIES; NANO-INDENTATION TESTS; NANOINDENTATION EXPERIMENTS; PRESTRAINING; STRAIN GRADIENT PLASTICITY THEORIES; ULTRA-FINE GRAINED COPPERS; WORK HARDENINGS;

BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; EXPERIMENTS; HARDENING; HARDNESS; MATERIALS; MICROSTRUCTURE; NANOINDENTATION; PLASTICITY;

YIELD STRESS;

EID: 63149197760     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2009.0123     Document Type: Article

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