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 …

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 …

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 …

In this review paper the current state of research into the physical degradation of polymer
films is elucidated. Modern applications of polymer films and the implication of their …

The inverse analysis of indentation curves, aimed at extracting the stress-strain curve of a
material, has been under intense development for decades, with progress relying mainly on …

In this paper, a novel inverse computation method is proposed to estimate the elastic-plastic
properties of metal materials by using only the residual imprint of spherical indentation. The …

This work extends prior analysis and methodology for extracting yield strength, σys, Young's
modulus, E, strain hardening exponent, n, and hardness, p¯, from instrumented indentation …

Indentation hardness has been used extensively for material characterization and many
recent computational studies have established quantitative relationships between elasto …