Accurately obtaining the mechanical properties of materials is crucial for materials property
evaluations and engineering designs. Nanoindentation technology has emerged as an …

Due to the substrate effect, there are several difficulties to evaluate the material properties of
thin films via nanoindentation. In this study, an inverse analysis method based on an artificial …

Nanoindentation technology is an effective and convenient method for evaluating the
mechanical properties of materials at micro and nano scales. Since the complete …

Indentation plastometry extracting plastic properties of a material from a non-destructive
instrumented indentation has emerged as an efficient and practical method beyond the …

Small specimen test techniques (SSTTs), developed for scarce materials, industrial
products, in-service equipment, etc., could be challenging to obtain sufficient materials for …

This study proposes a method for evaluating elastic limit and strain hardening exponent by a
single spherical indentation test. The method extracts the plastic properties from radial …

Instrumented indentation test (IIT) is regarded as one of the non-destructive test methods for
mechanical characterization and safety assessment of engineering components. However …

An approach for the inverse estimation of the elastoplastic properties from a single
indentation with a Berkovich indenter was developed. The relationship between the load …

Understanding the impact of plastic anisotropy on the formability of sheet metals is crucial for
their industrial application and high-precision forming simulation. Existing multiple uniaxial …

Nanoindentation has been used for a long time to investigate the mechanical properties of
materials. A well-known displacement burst, the so-called “pop-in,” is usually observed …