Ultrasonic surface burnishing (USB) process is a promising surface enhancement technique
that improves fatigue life of components by exerting work hardening and compressive …

The impacts of the parameters controlling the finite element simulation of instrumented
indentation tests and their consequences on numerical results are reviewed in case of …

Shot peening is a mechanical surface treatment widely utilized to enhance the fatigue
strength of gears by surface work hardening and inducing compressive residual stresses …

In the present article, a new method for the determination of the hardening law using the
load displacement curve, F–h, of a spherical indentation test is developed. This method is …

In this work, the nonlinear kinematic hardening combined with Voce isotropic hardening was
selected to characterize the material behavior of advanced high strength steel sheet …

In the present work, a new surface mechanical strengthening (SMS) technique named stress
ultrasonic rolling (SUR), which is ultrasonic rolling (UR) assisted with a uniaxial tensile …

This paper investigates the identification of mechanical properties of carbonitrided steels
using the spherical indentation test. The proposed procedure consists in performing the …

Mechanical characterisation techniques have been recently proposed, which use as main
information source the geometry of the residual imprint left on metal surfaces by hardness or …

Ultrasonic nanocrystalline surface modification (UNSM) is state-of-art surface modification
technique in which both the static and dynamic loads are contributed in work hardening of …

This study investigates the mechanical behavior of a carbonitrided steel, plastically graded
material, during a spherical indentation test. We demonstrate that the behavior of a …