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2011 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

1. Contact Mechanics

Author : Anthony C. Fischer-Cripps

Published in: Nanoindentation

Publisher: Springer New York

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Abstract

There has been considerable recent interest in the mechanical characterisation of thin film systems and small volumes of material using depth-sensing indentation tests with either spherical or pyramidal indenters. Usually, the principal goal of such testing is to extract elastic modulus and hardness of the specimen material from experimental readings of indenter load and depth of penetration. These readings give an indirect measure of the area of contact at full load, from which the mean contact pressure, and thus hardness, may be estimated. The test procedure, for both spheres and pyramidal indenters, usually involves an elastic–plastic loading sequence followed by an unloading. The validity of the results for hardness and modulus depends largely upon the analysis procedure used to process the raw data. Such procedures are concerned not only with the extraction of modulus and hardness, but also with correcting the raw data for various systematic errors that have been identified for this type of testing.

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Footnotes
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In this section only, δ is the indentation depth measured from the contact circle, not below the original free surface.
 
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Metadata
Title
Contact Mechanics
Author
Anthony C. Fischer-Cripps
Copyright Year
2011
Publisher
Springer New York
Book
Nanoindentation

Print ISBN: 978-1-4419-9871-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4419-9872-9

Copyright Year: 2011

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9872-9_1

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