Hardness measurement of anisotropic materials with wedge-shaped indenter.

Measurement of Mechanical Properties of Cantilever Shaped Materials

Microcantilevers were first introduced as imaging probes in Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) due to their extremely high sensitivity in measuring surface forces. The versatility of these probes, however, allows the sensing and measurement of a host of mechanical properties of various materials. Sensor parameters such as resonance frequency, quality factor, amplitude of vibration and bending due to...

Anisotropic Thermal Property Measurement of Carbon-fiber/Epoxy Composite Materials

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Characterization of Rockwell hardness indenter Tip using image processing and optical profiler and evaluation of measurement uncertainty

Hardness is a measure of the resistance of a material to be penetrated and eroded by sharp projections of other materials such as diamond. The process of creating sharp projections on any test surface is known as indentation. Hardness measurement of any material is the result of a complex process of deformation during indentation. The indenter tip geometry, which includes radius of curvature at...

A Theoretical Study of Wall Ironing for Anisotropic Workharden Materials

Measurement of minority-carrier diffusion lengths using wedge-shaped semiconductor photoelectrodes

Measurement of the photocurrent as a function of the thickness of a light absorber has been shown herein both theoretically and experimentally to provide a method for determination of the minority-carrier diffusion length of a sample. To perform the measurement, an illuminated spot of photons with an energy well above the band gap of the material was scanned along the thickness gradient of a we...