The reduced modulus in the analysis of sharp instrumented indentation tests

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (16) ◽  
pp. 2148-2160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara A. Rodríguez ◽  
Jorge Alcalá ◽  
Roberto M. Souza
Keyword(s):  
Instrumented Indentation ◽  
Reduced Modulus ◽  
Indentation Tests ◽  
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Comparison of mechanical properties of thermally modified wood at growth ring and cell wall level by means of instrumented indentation tests

Holzforschung ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefanie Stanzl-Tschegg ◽  
Wilfried Beikircher ◽  
Dieter Loidl
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Cell Wall ◽  
Thermal Treatment ◽  
Mechanical Performance ◽  
Growth Ring ◽  
Beech Wood ◽  
Thermal Modification ◽  
Wood Structure ◽  
Instrumented Indentation ◽  
Indentation Tests

Abstract Thermal modification is a well established method to improve the dimensional stability and the durability for outdoor use of wood. Unfortunately, these improvements are usually accompanied with a deterioration of mechanical performance (e.g., reduced strength or higher brittleness). In contrast, our investigations of the hardness properties in the longitudinal direction of beech wood revealed a significant improvement with thermal modification. Furthermore, we applied instrumented indentation tests on different hierarchical levels of wood structure (growth ring and cell wall level) to gain closer insights on the mechanisms of thermal treatment of wood on mechanical properties. This approach provides a variety of mechanical data (e.g., elastic parameters, hardness parameters, and viscoelastic properties) from one single experiment. Investigations on the influence of thermal treatment on the mechanical properties of beech revealed similar trends on the growth ring as well as the on the cell wall level of the wood structure.

Instrumented indentation microscope applied to the elastoplastic indentation contact mechanics of coating/substrate composites

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 1950-1959 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Hakiri ◽  
A. Matsuda ◽  
M. Sakai
Keyword(s):  
Contact Area ◽  
Film Coating ◽  
Instrumented Indentation ◽  
Thin Film Coating ◽  
Composite Systems ◽  
Indentation Tests ◽  
Film Substrate ◽  
Contact Parameters

In instrumented indentation tests for a thin film coating on a substrate (film/substrate composite), it is well known that the substrate-affected contact area estimated through conventional approximations includes significant uncertainties, leading to a crucial difficulty in determining the elastic modulus and the contact hardness. To overcome this difficulty, an instrumented indentation microscope that enables researchers to make an in situ determination of the contact area is applied to an elastoplastic film on substrates having various values of their elastic moduli. Using the indentation microscope, the substrate-affected indentation contact parameters including contact hardness of the film/substrate composites are determined directly as well as quantitatively without any undesirable assumptions and approximations associated with the contact area estimate. The effect of a stiffer substrate on the contact profile of impression is significant, switching the profile from sinking in to piling up during penetration, and resulting in the substrate-affected contact hardness being highly enhanced at deeper penetrations. Through the present experimental study, it is demonstrated how efficient that instrumented indentation microscopy is in determining the substrate-affected elastoplastic contact parameters of film/substrate composite systems.

Effects of strain hardening and residual stress in impression on the instrumented indentation technique

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 1680-1686
Author(s):  
L.Z. Liu ◽  
Y.W. Bao ◽  
Y.C. Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Residual Stress ◽  
Strain Hardening ◽  
Energy Analysis ◽  
Maximum Load ◽  
Contact Theory ◽  
Elastic Contact ◽  
Instrumented Indentation ◽  
Indentation Technique ◽  
Indentation Tests ◽  
Elastic Loading

Finite element analyses were carried out to simulate the loading, unloading, and reloading processes of indentation tests. It was found that the validity of applying the elastic contact theory to the indentation unloading process is strongly related to the strain hardening and residual stress in impression. It is the combination of strain hardening and residual stress that causes the unloading or reloading curves to show elastic loading in the range from zero to the maximum load whereas the reloading curve on the impression without strain hardening and residual stress shows elastic–plastic loading in the same range. These computations indicate that applying the elastic contact theory to the unloading or reloading processes, the fundamental prerequisite of the instrumented indentation technique, is valid because of the existence of strain hardening and residual stress. The mechanism of this hardening effect is discussed through energy analysis.

scholarly journals Numerical verification for instrumented spherical indentation techniques in determining the plastic properties of materials

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (12) ◽  
pp. 3653-3663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taihua Zhang ◽  
Peng Jiang ◽  
Yihui Feng ◽  
Rong Yang
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Experiments ◽  
Spherical Indentation ◽  
Numerical Verification ◽  
Instrumented Indentation ◽  
Plastic Properties ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Validity Range ◽  
Indentation Tests ◽  
Properties Of Materials ◽  
Indentation Methods

Instrumented indentation tests have been widely adopted for elastic modulus determination. Recently, a number of indentation-based methods for plastic properties characterization have been proposed, and rigorous verification is absolutely necessary for their wide application. In view of the advantages of spherical indentation compared with conical indentation in determining plastic properties, this study mainly concerns verification of spherical indentation methods. Five convenient and simple models were selected for this purpose, and numerical experiments for a wide range of materials are carried out to identify their accuracy and sensitivity characteristics. The verification results show that four of these five methods can give relatively accurate and stable results within a certain material domain, which is defined as their validity range and has been summarized for each method.

Numerical analysis of different methods to calculate residual stresses in thin films based on instrumented indentation data

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (13) ◽  
pp. 1732-1741 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Eduardo Keutenedjian Mady ◽  
Sara Aida Rodriguez ◽  
Adriana Gómez Gómez ◽  
Roberto Martins Souza
Keyword(s):  
Thin Films ◽  
Numerical Analysis ◽  
Residual Stresses ◽  
Instrumented Indentation ◽  
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