Composite materials are becoming increasingly important as structural materials for
aeronautical and space engineering, naval, automotive, and civil engineering, sporting …

The indentation hardness–depth relation established by Nix and Gao [1998. Indentation size
effects in crystalline materials: a law for strain gradient plasticity. J. Mech. Phys. Solids 46 …

In situ mechanical tests were carried out to measure the tensile behavior of single-crystalline
face-centered cubic (fcc) gold (Au) and body-centered cubic (bcc) molybdenum (Mo) nano …

Using molecular-dynamics simulation, we study nanoindentation in fcc (Cu and Al) and bcc
(Fe and Ta) metals by a spherical indenter and investigate the size of the plastic zone …

Pulse-electrodeposited nanocrystalline nickel was heat-treated to produce grain sizes from
the nanoscale to microscale. By always performing nanoindents in the center of individual …

During nanoindentation of a material with a naturally rough-surface, a flattening of the rough-
surface is additionally accomplished compared to nanoindentation on a flat surface. By …

To examine effects of indentation size and substrate on the hardness determination of thin
films, two typical types of hard film/soft substrate (Ni/Fe) and soft film/hard substrate (Al/Si …

Tensile properties can be evaluated by defining representative stress and strain with the
parameters obtained from instrumented indentation tests using a spherical indenter. The …

SiC microparticles with various weight ratios (0.0, 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5 wt%) are incorporated into
sintered silver nanoparticles (AgNP) as one of the promising packaging materials for high …

A nanomechanical testing set-up is developed by integrating an atomic force microscope
(AFM) for force measurements with a scanning electron microscope (SEM) to provide …