The mechanical properties of the skin are important for various applications. Numerous tests
have been conducted to characterize the mechanical behavior of this tissue, and this article …

The solution of instrumented indentation inverse problems by physically-based models still
represents a complex challenge yet to be solved in metallurgy and materials science. In …

Although indentation experiments have long been used to measure the hardness and
Young's modulus, the utility of this technique in analyzing the complete elastic–plastic …

We provide an overview of the basic concepts of scaling and dimensional analysis, followed
by a review of some of the recent work on applying these concepts to modeling instrumented …

Indentation testing is a common method to assess the mechanical properties of materials
near their surface. The elasto-plastic properties may be determined from the force …

The lack of practicable nonlinear elastic contact models frequently compels the
inappropriate use of Hertzian models in analyzing indentation data and likely contributes to …

Many arenas of research are rapidly advancing due to a combined effort between
engineering and science. In some cases, fields of research that were stagnating under the …

In this paper, a new methodology to extract the plastic properties of metallic materials from
an instrumented spherical indentation loading curve has been proposed using dimensional …

In this paper, we present a novel approach to converting the load–displacement data
measured in spherical nanoindentation into indentation stress–strain curves. This new …

The stress-strain fields realized in spherical indentation tests are highly heterogeneous, and
present a significant challenge to the recovery of bulk stress-strain responses such as those …