 The Vickers hardness test can cover an extensive range of test loads from several gram-force (gf) to 100 kilogram-force (kgf) with a single hardness scale. It is one of the most reliable strength tests because the simplicity of the testing theory and the indenter shape minimizes variances among hardness values obtained. The most vulnerable aspect of the Vickers method is an error when measuri...

A novel approach is presented for the identification of constitutive parameters of linear poroelastic materials from indentation tests. Load-controlled spherical indentation with a ramp-hold creep profile is considered. The identification approach is based on the normalization of the time-displacement indentation response, in analogy to the well-known one-dimensional consolidation problem. The ...

Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) indentation on living cells in physiological medium is a well established technique used for investigation of the cell mechanical properties at nanoscale. However, interpretation of the experimental data obtained in such experiments is rarely a trivial task. This is happening because living cells have a complex response to the applied mechanical stress, response th...

This chapter presents the energy dissipation approach for analyzing surface contact damages in various materials, including composite materials. As known, surface contact is a very common phenomenon, which can be found in daily life and many scientific and engineering problems. The contact of different bodies can be modeled as indentation. Analysis of indentation and modeling of the deformation...

Indentation creep tests and finite element simulations were performed on a model material to show that the constitutive equation for conventional uniaxial creep can be derived using the instrumented indentation testing technique. When the indentation pressure and the indentation creep rate are maintained at constant values of ps and _ 3⁄4inðsÞ, respectively, the contours of the equivalent stres...

The introduction of certain controlled gradients in plastic properties is known to promote resistance to the onset of damage at contact surfaces during some tribological applications. Gradients in composition, microstructure and plastic properties can also be deleterious to contact-damage resistance in some situations. In order to realize such potentially beneficial or deleterious effects of pl...

In this study, ultrasonic assisted machining (UAM) technique is applied in side-surface milling experiment for glass-ceramic workpiece material. The tungsten carbide cutting-tool with diamond coating is used in conjunction with two kinds of cooling/lubrication mediums such as water-soluble (WS) cutting fluid and minimum quantity lubricant (MQL). Full factorial process parameter combinations on ...

In this paper, a novel inverse computation approach is proposed to extract the anisotropic plasticity parameters of metal materials by using inverse analysis and dual indentation tests. Based on dimensional analysis and extensive finite element (FE) simulations, four independent dimensionless functions are derived to correlate the anisotropic plasticity parameters with material responses in dua...