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 …

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 …

A model of size effects in nano-indentation

Y Huang, F Zhang, KC Hwang, WD Nix… - Journal of the …, 2006 - Elsevier
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 …

Nanotwinned and hierarchical nanotwinned metals: a review of experimental, computational and theoretical efforts

L Sun, X He, J Lu - npj Computational Materials, 2018 - nature.com
The recent studies on nanotwinned (NT) and hierarchical nanotwinned (HNT) face-centered
cubic (FCC) metals are presented in this review. The HNT structures have been supposed …

A different type of indentation size effect

S Shim, H Bei, EP George, GM Pharr - Scripta Materialia, 2008 - Elsevier
Pop-in during nanoindentation, which indicates the onset of dislocation plasticity, was
systematically investigated in annealed and pre-strained single crystals of nickel using …

Size effects and stochastic behavior of nanoindentation pop in

JR Morris, H Bei, GM Pharr, EP George - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
A statistical model for pop in initiated at preexisting dislocations during nanoindentation is
developed to explain size-dependent pop-in stresses. To verify theoretical predictions of this …

Mechanical and electronic properties of diborides of transition 3d–5d metals from first principles: Toward search of novel ultra-incompressible and superhard materials

AL Ivanovskii - Progress in Materials Science, 2012 - Elsevier
The appreciable progress has been achieved currently in the development of design
principles, synthesis, investigations and predictions of various groups of ultra …

Nanoindentation study of δ-phase zirconium hydride using the crystal plasticity model

XD Zan, X Guo, GJ Weng, G Chen - International Journal of Plasticity, 2023 - Elsevier
Zirconium hydride precipitation degrades the fracture toughness of nuclear reactor fuel
cladding tube. Due to the difficulty of experiment, deep understanding on mechanical …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of hydrogen content and yield strength on the distribution of hydrogen in steel: a diffusion coupled micromechanical FEM study

A Hussein, AHM Krom, P Dey, GK Sunnardianto… - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, we investigate the effect of the heterogeneous micromechanical stress fields
resulting from the grain-scale anisotropy on the redistribution of hydrogen using a diffusion …

Comparative simulation study of the structure of the plastic zone produced by nanoindentation

Y Gao, CJ Ruestes, DR Tramontina… - Journal of the Mechanics …, 2015 - Elsevier
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 …