Objective: The mechanical behaviour or the Young's Modulus of the skin is measured as a
ratio of the stress applied to the skin in vitro or in vivo over the skin deformation. The Young's …

The method we introduced in 1992 for measuring hardness and elastic modulus by
instrumented indentation techniques has widely been adopted and used in the …

This article reviews recent literature on polymer nanocomposites using advanced
indentation techniques to evaluate the surface mechanical properties down to the nanoscale …

We examine the effects of the substrate on the determination of mechanical properties of thin
films by nanoindentation. The properties of aluminum and tungsten films on the following …

Homogeneously dispersed organic–inorganic hybrid nanocomposites can be obtained by
increasing the interfacial interactions between both components via the formation of …

Substrate influence is a common problem when using instrumented indentation (also known
as nano-indentation) to evaluate the elastic modulus of thin films. Many have proposed …

Nanoindentation is an important technique for probing the mechanical behavior of materials
at small length scales. In this study, nanoindentation was used to extract the elastic and …

This article provides a practical reference guide for instrumented indentation testing (IIT). It
summarizes the various types of indenters used in IIT and parameters describing their …

Shales are a class of multiscale, multiphase, hybrid inorganic-organic composite materials
exhibiting both frictional and cohesive behavior, and it is very challenging to characterize …

The fundamental property which often dictates the performance of a coating is its adhesion
to the substrate and thus there are many techniques to measure adhesion. The choice of …