A new method for evaluating the plastic properties of materials through instrumented frictional sliding tests
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Frictional normal contact probing methods involving instrumented, depth-sensing indentation can be used to estimate the mechanical properties of small-volume structures and materials such as thin films and components of micro-electro-mechanical systems. This paper describes a new method for estimating the plastic properties, i.e. the yield strength and strain hardening exponent, of ductile materials from the topography of scratches formed by a conical tip during an instrumented, depth-sensing frictional sliding test. The proposed reverse analysis (or inverse analysis) uses dimensionless functions derived from computational simulations to extract plastic properties from an instrumented scratch response performed on a standard, commercially available instrument. Sensitivity analysis indicates that an experimental error of 5% in the scratch hardness or the pile-up height induces an error of <22% in the estimated strain hardening exponent. Laboratory experiments illustrate how two aluminum alloy tempers of the same indentation hardness have significantly different pile-up as a result of different strain hardening. Comparative results between the frictional sliding test and traditional tensile tests showed reasonable agreement for a total of 11 metallic alloys evaluated. These results confirm the potential usefulness of the proposed method as an engineering tool to probe plastic properties of small-volume materials and confined structures where it is difficult to obtain reliable estimates of mechanical properties by other means. 2010 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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