The indentation size effect: a critical examination of experimental observations and mechanistic interpretations

GM Pharr, EG Herbert, Y Gao - Annual Review of Materials …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
The indentation size effect is one of several size effects on strength for which “smaller is
stronger.” Through use of geometrically self-similar indenters such as cones and pyramids …

Scaling, dimensional analysis, and indentation measurements

YT Cheng, CM Cheng - Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports, 2004 - Elsevier
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 …

Size dependence of mechanical properties of gold at the micron scale in the absence of strain gradients

JR Greer, WC Oliver, WD Nix - Acta Materialia, 2005 - Elsevier
Classical laws of mechanics hold that mechanical properties are independent of sample
size; however, results of experiments and molecular dynamics simulations indicate that …

Metal matrix composites

A Mortensen, J Llorca - Annual review of materials research, 2010 - annualreviews.org
In metal matrix composites, a metal is combined with another, often nonmetallic, phase to
produce a novel material having attractive engineering attributes of its own. A subject of …

Size effect on strength and strain hardening of small-scale [1 1 1] nickel compression pillars

CP Frick, BG Clark, S Orso, AS Schneider… - Materials Science and …, 2008 - Elsevier
This study investigates uniaxial compression behavior of focused ion beam (FIB)
manufactured [111] nickel (Ni) small-scale pillars, ranging in diameter from approximately …

Investigation of the indentation size effect through the measurement of the geometrically necessary dislocations beneath small indents of different depths using EBSD …

E Demir, D Raabe, N Zaafarani, S Zaefferer - Acta Materialia, 2009 - Elsevier
We study the link between the indentation size effect and the density of geometrically
necessary dislocations (GNDs) through the following approach: four indents of different …

An introduction to computational nanomechanics and materials

WK Liu, EG Karpov, S Zhang, HS Park - Computer methods in applied …, 2004 - Elsevier
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 …

Multiscale modeling: a review

MF Horstemeyer - Practical aspects of computational chemistry: methods …, 2010 - Springer
This review of multiscale modeling covers a brief history of various multiscale methodologies
related to solid materials and the associated experimental influences, the various influence …

Review of nanoindentation size effect: Experiments and atomistic simulation

GZ Voyiadjis, M Yaghoobi - Crystals, 2017 - mdpi.com
Nanoindentation is a well-stablished experiment to study the mechanical properties of
materials at the small length scales of micro and nano. Unlike the conventional indentation …

Analytical and experimental determination of the material intrinsic length scale of strain gradient plasticity theory from micro-and nano-indentation experiments

RKA Al-Rub, GZ Voyiadjis - International Journal of plasticity, 2004 - Elsevier
The enhanced gradient plasticity theories formulate a constitutive framework on the
continuum level that is used to bridge the gap between the micromechanical plasticity and …