Deformation at high strain rates often results in high stresses on many engineering
materials, potentially leading to catastrophic failure without proper design. High-strain-rate …

Recent advances in electronics have enabled nanomechanical measurements with very low
noise, fast time constants and high data acquisition rates. These capabilities open the door …

Recent developments in test methodologies for nanoindenter-based small-length-scale
mechanical characterization are overviewed, such as micropillar compression, cantilever …

Indentation is a simple and one of the oldest small-scale test methods for characterizing the
mechanical response of materials. Recently, there has been a growing interest in dynamic …

Understanding the deformation and fracture behavior of single crystal silicon carbide (SiC)
under a single particle is of scientific and practical importance for the micromachining of …

We introduce a new nanoindentation method to continuously measure the hardness while
sweeping through orders of magnitudes of strain rates within a single experiment. While …

L1 2 intermetallic compounds are essential constituents of the nickel-based superalloys
widely used in jet engines. They derive their exceptional high-temperature mechanical …

Although the rate-dependence of metals has been widely researched, the deformation
mechanism under small-scale impact conditions lacked exploration and in-depth …

The study reveals a size effect in deformation mechanisms via unique structural transitions
in sputter deposited fcc/bcc nanolayers under high strain rate impact nanoindentation as …

In this study, high strain rate nanoindentation was utilized to elucidate the dynamic behavior
and the underlying deformation mechanisms of the equi-atomic vanadium-cobalt-nickel …