| | Review of instrumented indentation Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology - Find ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | Instrumented indentation, also known as depth-sensing indentation or nanoindentation, is increasingly being used to probe the mechanical response of materials from metals and ceramics to polymeric and biological materials. |
 | | Indentation or hardness testing has long been used for characterization and quality control of materials, but the results are not absolute and depend on the test method. |
 | | Instrumented indentation systems have been used to study, for example, dislocation behavior in metals [2-4], fracture behavior in ceramics [5-6], mechanical behavior of thin films [7-10] and bone [11], residual stresses [12], and time-dependent behavior in soft metals [13-15] and polymers [16-22]. |
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