Identifying the limitation of Oliver and Pharr method in characterizing the viscoelasticplastic materials with respect to indenter geometry

Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings

Volumn 1137, Issue , 2008, Pages 49-54

  Balasundaram, Keerthika ^a   Cao, Yanping ^b   Raabe, Dierk ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EISENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIALS; ELASTIC MODULI; GEOMETRY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYMERS; VISCOELASTICITY;

ANALYSIS METHOD; INDENTERS; NANO SCALE; NANOINDENTATION TESTS; PHARR METHOD; VISCO ELASTIC PLASTICS; VISCOELASTIC-PLASTIC MATERIALS;

MATERIALS PROPERTIES;

EID: 70450131403     PISSN: 02729172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1557/proc-1137-ee10-23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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