Nanoindentation strain-rate jump tests for determining the local strain-rate sensitivity in nanocrystalline Ni and ultrafine-grained Al

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1421-1430

  Maier, Verena ^a   Durst, Karsten ^a   Mueller, Johannes ^a   Backes, Björn ^a   Höppel, Heinz Werner ^a   Göken, Mathias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOND LAYER; BULK MATERIALS; COMPRESSION TESTS; FEM SIMULATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; JUMP TECHNIQUE; LOW STRAIN RATES; NANOCRYSTALLINE NI; NANOCRYSTALLINES; NANOINDENTATION EXPERIMENTS; NANOINDENTATION TESTS; STRAIN RATE SENSITIVITY; ULTRAFINE GRAINED MATERIALS; ULTRAFINE-GRAINED; UNIAXIAL TESTING;

COMPRESSION TESTING; EXPERIMENTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INDENTATION; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; NANOINDENTATION;

STRAIN RATE;

EID: 81355163505     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: 20445326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2011.156     Document Type: Article

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