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Depth-sensing indentation measurements with Vickers and Berkovich indenters

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Depth-sensing indentation measurements are performed with two different Vickers indenters and one Berkovich indenter. The sample materials were mirror polished Ag, Al, Au, Ni, and Ti samples. From the load-indentation depth data, the conventional hardness plots as well as the first derivative are calculated. The latter procedure yields a specific volume related density of deformation energy in the probed material. That specific energy density is shown to be a constant material parameter for extended indentation depths and for different Vickers indenters. Vickers and Berkovch indenters delivered within the error margin the same results.

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  1. Joint Research Centre of the Commission of the EC, Inst. for Advanced Materials, I-21020, Ispra, Italy

    B. Rother, A. Steiner, J. Haupt & W. Gissler

  2. Ingenieubüro Dr. Dietrich, Hauptstr. 64, D-09235, Burkhardtsdorf, Germany

    D. A. Dietrich

  3. Forschungsinstitut für Edelmetalle und Metallchemie, Katharinenstr. 17, D-73525, Schwäbisch, Gmünd, Germany

    H. A. Jehn

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Rother, B., Steiner, A., Dietrich, D.A. et al. Depth-sensing indentation measurements with Vickers and Berkovich indenters. Journal of Materials Research 13, 2071–2076 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.1998.0291

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