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International Journal of Materials Research
From the journal International Journal of Materials Research Volume 97 Issue 9

Dear Reader,

Going into its seventh year, Nanomech has become a well established meeting for the nanoindentation and nanomechanics community in Germany, Europe and beyond.

2005 was a year of change for the symposium as Prof. Peter Grau (left) and Dr. Ude. D. Hangen (right), both founding members of the Nanomech conference and strong contributors to its success, stepped down from their responsibilities within the conference committee.

We would like to thank them for their persistent efforts to make the Nanomech a platform for vivid scientific exchange.

Prof. R. Spolenak (ETH Zurich) has joined the committee as a new member. He studied Physics at the University of Vienna and received his PhD in 1999 at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart and was awarded the Otto Hahn medal for his achievements during his thesis on Alloying effects in electromigration. After his postdoctoral engagement at Bell Laboratories and his employment as a group leader in the department of Prof. E. Arzt at the MPI for Metals Research in Stuttgart, he became assistant professor at the ETH Zurich and chair of the Laboratory for Nanometallurgy in 2004.

As a further new member of the committee, I would like to draw your attention to the following collection of publications providing a summary of the research presented during the Nanomech 6 – the 6th European symposium on nanomechanical testing, that took place from Aug 30th to Sept 1st 2005 in Hückelhoven.

Nanoindentation has become an established and standardized (ISO 14577) technique for testing the nanohardness and related mechanical properties of surfaces. In the standard experiments a pyramidal diamond tip is pressed into the specimen surface (Fig. 1) while measuring the applied force and displacement (Fig. 2).

Fig. 1 Indents in a polymer surface
Fig. 1

Indents in a polymer surface

Fig. 2 Load-Displacement curve
Fig. 2

Load-Displacement curve

The hardness and modulus of the material are obtained by analyzing the respective data according to the Oliver and Pharr model. The will to understand fully the underlying mechanisms with increasing sample complexity (e. g. multiphase materials, multilayer thin films) has generated a growing need to supplement the mechanical experiments with refined analytical and numerical modeling (Fig. 3).

Fig. 3 Simulated stress distribution in an indentation experiment
Fig. 3

Simulated stress distribution in an indentation experiment

Therefore, Nanomech 6 focused on modeling the nanoindentation process but also, once again, covered a wide range of research topics in the field of micro- and nanomechanical testing of various materials, thin films and microstructures. The following articles report on recent research work related to such questions in the field of nanomechnical testing. We wish you interesting reading and hope to welcome you at one of the future Nanomech meetings.

Published Online: 2022-01-21

© 2006 Carl Hanser Verlag, München

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Contents
  2. Editorial
  3. Nanoindentation creep and stress relaxation tests of polycarbonate: Analysis of viscoelastic properties by different rheological models
  4. Investigation of SiO2 thin films on Si substrates for use as standards for laser-acoustic measuring devices
  5. Determination of the critical tensile stress of sapphire by spherical indentation with additional lateral forces
  6. The deformation behaviour of electrodeposited nanocrystalline Ni in an atomic force microscope with a newly developed in situ bending machine
  7. In situ electrochemical nanoindentation of a nickel (111) single crystal: hydrogen effect on pop-in behaviour
  8. Indentation behaviour of (011) thin films of III–V semiconductors: polarity effect differences between GaAs and InP
  9. Multiwall carbon nanotubes-based composites – mechanical characterization using the nanoindentation technique
  10. Nanoindentation studies of stamp materials for nanoimprint lithography
  11. Experimental and thermodynamic evaluation of the Co–Cr–C system
  12. Thermodynamics of high-temperature cuprous sulfide
  13. Sintering of Si3N4 with Li-exchanged zeolite additive
  14. Effect of LiYO2 addition on sintering behavior and indentation properties of silicon nitride ceramics
  15. Mechanism of quasi-viscous flow of zinc single crystals
  16. The absolute thermoelectric power of chromium, molybdenum, and tungsten
  17. Modelling of metal – mould interface resistance in the Al-11.5 wt.% Si alloy casting process
  18. Award/Preisverleihung
  19. Personal
  20. Conferences
  21. Contents
  22. Editorial
  23. Editorial
  24. Basic
  25. Nanoindentation creep and stress relaxation tests of polycarbonate: Analysis of viscoelastic properties by different rheological models
  26. Investigation of SiO2 thin films on Si substrates for use as standards for laser-acoustic measuring devices
  27. Determination of the critical tensile stress of sapphire by spherical indentation with additional lateral forces
  28. The deformation behaviour of electrodeposited nanocrystalline Ni in an atomic force microscope with a newly developed in situ bending machine
  29. In situ electrochemical nanoindentation of a nickel (111) single crystal: hydrogen effect on pop-in behaviour
  30. Indentation behaviour of (011) thin films of III–V semiconductors: polarity effect differences between GaAs and InP
  31. Multiwall carbon nanotubes-based composites – mechanical characterization using the nanoindentation technique
  32. Nanoindentation studies of stamp materials for nanoimprint lithography
  33. Experimental and thermodynamic evaluation of the Co–Cr–C system
  34. Applied
  35. Thermodynamics of high-temperature cuprous sulfide
  36. Sintering of Si3N4 with Li-exchanged zeolite additive
  37. Effect of LiYO2 addition on sintering behavior and indentation properties of silicon nitride ceramics
  38. Mechanism of quasi-viscous flow of zinc single crystals
  39. The absolute thermoelectric power of chromium, molybdenum, and tungsten
  40. Modelling of metal – mould interface resistance in the Al-11.5 wt.% Si alloy casting process
  41. Kösterpreis
  42. Award/Preisverleihung
  43. Notifications
  44. Personal
  45. Conferences
https://doi.org/10.1515/ijmr-2006-0188

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Contents
  2. Editorial
  3. Nanoindentation creep and stress relaxation tests of polycarbonate: Analysis of viscoelastic properties by different rheological models
  4. Investigation of SiO2 thin films on Si substrates for use as standards for laser-acoustic measuring devices
  5. Determination of the critical tensile stress of sapphire by spherical indentation with additional lateral forces
  6. The deformation behaviour of electrodeposited nanocrystalline Ni in an atomic force microscope with a newly developed in situ bending machine
  7. In situ electrochemical nanoindentation of a nickel (111) single crystal: hydrogen effect on pop-in behaviour
  8. Indentation behaviour of (011) thin films of III–V semiconductors: polarity effect differences between GaAs and InP
  9. Multiwall carbon nanotubes-based composites – mechanical characterization using the nanoindentation technique
  10. Nanoindentation studies of stamp materials for nanoimprint lithography
  11. Experimental and thermodynamic evaluation of the Co–Cr–C system
  12. Thermodynamics of high-temperature cuprous sulfide
  13. Sintering of Si3N4 with Li-exchanged zeolite additive
  14. Effect of LiYO2 addition on sintering behavior and indentation properties of silicon nitride ceramics
  15. Mechanism of quasi-viscous flow of zinc single crystals
  16. The absolute thermoelectric power of chromium, molybdenum, and tungsten
  17. Modelling of metal – mould interface resistance in the Al-11.5 wt.% Si alloy casting process
  18. Award/Preisverleihung
  19. Personal
  20. Conferences
  21. Contents
  22. Editorial
  23. Editorial
  24. Basic
  25. Nanoindentation creep and stress relaxation tests of polycarbonate: Analysis of viscoelastic properties by different rheological models
  26. Investigation of SiO2 thin films on Si substrates for use as standards for laser-acoustic measuring devices
  27. Determination of the critical tensile stress of sapphire by spherical indentation with additional lateral forces
  28. The deformation behaviour of electrodeposited nanocrystalline Ni in an atomic force microscope with a newly developed in situ bending machine
  29. In situ electrochemical nanoindentation of a nickel (111) single crystal: hydrogen effect on pop-in behaviour
  30. Indentation behaviour of (011) thin films of III–V semiconductors: polarity effect differences between GaAs and InP
  31. Multiwall carbon nanotubes-based composites – mechanical characterization using the nanoindentation technique
  32. Nanoindentation studies of stamp materials for nanoimprint lithography
  33. Experimental and thermodynamic evaluation of the Co–Cr–C system
  34. Applied
  35. Thermodynamics of high-temperature cuprous sulfide
  36. Sintering of Si3N4 with Li-exchanged zeolite additive
  37. Effect of LiYO2 addition on sintering behavior and indentation properties of silicon nitride ceramics
  38. Mechanism of quasi-viscous flow of zinc single crystals
  39. The absolute thermoelectric power of chromium, molybdenum, and tungsten
  40. Modelling of metal – mould interface resistance in the Al-11.5 wt.% Si alloy casting process
  41. Kösterpreis
  42. Award/Preisverleihung
  43. Notifications
  44. Personal
  45. Conferences
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