Overview on micro-and nanomechanical testing: New insights in interface plasticity and fracture at small length scales

G Dehm, BN Jaya, R Raghavan, C Kirchlechner - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Micro-and nanomechanical testing has seen a rapid development over the last decade with
miniaturized test rigs and MEMS-based devices providing access to the mechanical …

Ultra-strength materials

T Zhu, J Li - Progress in Materials Science, 2010 - Elsevier
Recent experiments on nanostructured materials, such as nanoparticles, nanowires,
nanotubes, nanopillars, thin films, and nanocrystals have revealed a host of “ultra-strength” …

[HTML][HTML] Nanoindentation studies of materials

CA Schuh - Materials today, 2006 - Elsevier
Nanoindentation has become a commonplace tool for the measurement of mechanical
properties at small scales, but may have even greater importance as a technique for …

High temperature nanoindentation: The state of the art and future challenges

JM Wheeler, DEJ Armstrong, W Heinz… - Current Opinion in Solid …, 2015 - Elsevier
Nanoindentation measurement capabilities at elevated temperatures have developed
considerably over the last two decades. Commercially available systems can now perform …

Quantitative insight into dislocation nucleation from high-temperature nanoindentation experiments

CA Schuh, JK Mason, AC Lund - Nature Materials, 2005 - nature.com
Nanoindentation has become ubiquitous for the measurement of mechanical properties at
ever-decreasing scales of interest, including some studies that have explored the atomic …

Advanced characterization methods for wear resistant hard coatings: a review on recent progress

M Tkadletz, N Schalk, R Daniel, J Keckes… - Surface and Coatings …, 2016 - Elsevier
Due to economical demands to further increase the efficiency of production processes, it is
essential to exploit the full potential of wear resistant hard coatings. This is, however …

Elevated temperature, nano-mechanical testing in situ in the scanning electron microscope

JM Wheeler, J Michler - Review of Scientific Instruments, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
A general nano-mechanical test platform capable of performing variable temperature and
variable strain rate testing in situ in the scanning electron microscope is described. A variety …

Relaxation behavior of polymer thin films: Effects of free surface, buried interface, and geometrical confinement

B Li, S Zhang, JS Andre, Z Chen - Progress in Polymer Science, 2021 - Elsevier
The glass transition temperature (T g) of polymer thin films, one of the most important
parameters to characterize the relaxation behavior of polymer chains in a thin film, has been …

An improved long-term nanoindentation creep testing approach for studying the local deformation processes in nanocrystalline metals at room and elevated …

V Maier, B Merle, M Göken, K Durst - Journal of Materials Research, 2013 - cambridge.org
The strain-rate sensitivity of ultrafine-grained aluminum (Al) and nanocrystalline nickel (Ni) is
studied with an improved nanoindentation creep method. Using the dynamic contact …

Nanoindentation based properties of Inconel 718 at elevated temperatures: A comparison of conventional versus additively manufactured samples

H Wang, A Dhiman, HE Ostergaard, Y Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this work, temperature dependent mechanical properties of conventional and additive
manufactured Inconel 718 (IN718) after solution and aging (SA) heat treatment were …