Room temperature constant-stress creep of a brittle solid studied by spherical nanoindentation Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Understanding room-temperature dislocation-based plastic deformation, in general, and time dependent deformation, in particular, in brittle solids is nontrivial. Herein, we describe a new constant-stress, spherical nanoindentation technique to study the creep of A-plane (1120) ZnO single crystal. The time dependent deformation follows a power-law behavior, with a threshold stress, and a stress exponent of 3.10.3, attributed to the movement of dislocation pileups on basal planes. The results are used to estimate the time dependencies of the threshold stresses, number of pileup dislocations, and the distance between them. The method described herein can also be used to quantify other time dependent mechanical properties, such as fatigue and subcritical crack growth, at the submicron, and even nanoscale. The results can thenas done herebe compared to long established macroscale relationships thus elucidating the nature of the former.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

author list (cited authors)

  • Basu, S., Radovic, M., & Barsoum, M. W.

citation count

  • 7

complete list of authors

  • Basu, Sandip||Radovic, Miladin||Barsoum, Michel W

publication date

  • September 2008