A combined inverse finite element – elastoplastic modelling method to simulate the size-effect in nanoindentation and characterise materials from the nano to micro-scale

Material properties such as hardness can be dependent on the size of the indentation load when that load is small, a phenomenon known as the indentation size effect (ISE). In this work an inverse finite element method (IFEM) is used to investigate the ISE, with reference to experiments with a Berkov...

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Main Authors: Chen, X., Ashcroft, Ian, Wildman, Ricky D., Tuck, Christopher
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier 2017
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/39736/