The correlation of indentation size effect experiments with pyramidal and spherical indenters Academic Article

abstract

• Experiments were conducted in annealed iridium using pyramidal and spherical indenters over a wide range of load. For a Berkovich pyramidal indenter, the hardness increased with decreasing depth of penetration. However, for spherical indenters, hardness increased with decreasing sphere radius. Based on the number of geometrically necessary dislocations generated during indentation, a theory that takes into account the work hardening differences between pyramidal and spherical indenters is developed to correlate the indentation size effects measured with the two indenters. The experimental results verify the theoretical correlation.

authors

• Pharr, George

published proceedings

• Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings

author list (cited authors)

• Swadener, J. G., George, E. P., & Pharr, G. M.

complete list of authors

• Swadener, JG||George, EP||Pharr, GM

publication date

• January 2002

published in

• MRS Online Proceedings Library  Journal

start page

• 451

end page

• 456

volume

• 695