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 …

The discipline of fracture mechanics was born almost a century ago through the pioneering
work of AA Griffith, and saw particularly rapid growth in the second half of 20th century when …

A brittle material fails under fracture due to the initiation and propagation of a crack. A high
performance device will suffer catastrophic failure under brittle fracture. Nevertheless, the …

We present improvements to a recently developed pillar splitting technique that can be used
to characterize the fracture toughness of materials at the micrometer scale. Micro‐pillars with …

We provide an experimental and theoretical description of the high temperature fracture
behaviour of TiN thin films. For this, we employ molecular dynamics and density functional …

Nanocrystalline NbMoTaW high entropy alloys (HEAs) have attracted significant attention
due to their superior mechanical properties at elevated temperatures. However, the fracture …

The pillar indentation splitting test is a novel technique for assessing the fracture behavior of
materials using micro-scale pillar samples. One typical limitation of this technique is the …

Nanoindentation of three metastable dual-phase high entropy alloys (HEAs) was performed
to obtain their inherent elastoplastic deformation responses. Excellent combination of …

The loading rate effect on the brittle-ductile transition temperatures of tungsten single
crystals at the micro-scale was investigated by microcantilevers with a (100)[001] crack …

This article reviews recent developments in small-scale mechanical property testing with
some emphasis on intermediate (meso) length scales in complex microstructures and …