Mechanical surface modification such as shot peening offer powerful enhancement of
fatigue properties of metals and other materials. Cavitation usually causes surface damage …

Indentation is a remarkably flexible mechanical test due to its relative experimental
simplicity. Coupled with advances in instrument development, ease of implementation has …

Instrumented indentation has been developed and widely utilized as one of the most
versatile and practical means of extracting mechanical properties of materials. This method …

Deformation response of ferrite and martensite in a commercially produced dual-phase
sheet steel with a nominal composition of 0.15% C–1.45% Mn–0.30% Si (wt.%) was …

Thin plates of high-strength steel are frequently being used both in civil and military ballistic
protection systems. The choice of alloy is then a function of application, ballistic …

In this work, some inaccuracies and limitations of prior indentation theories, which are based
on experimental observations and the deformation theory of plasticity, are investigated …

Small-scale mechanical testing on irradiated materials is gaining popularity in the nuclear
materials community due to the fact that mechanical property changes can be evaluated …

Indentation is widely used to extract material elastoplastic properties from the measured
force–displacement curves. One of the most well-established indentation techniques utilizes …

A comprehensive study on the spherical indentation of hyperelastic soft materials is carried
out through combined theoretical, computational, and experimental efforts. Four widely used …

Spherical indentation has the potential for measuring the elastic–plastic properties of a
power-law hardening bulk specimen with just one simple test. In this paper, based on a new …