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Nanoindentation behavior and mechanical properties measurement of polymeric materials

  • Robert F. Cook and Michelle L. Oyen
Published/Copyright: May 23, 2013
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International Journal of Materials Research
From the journal International Journal of Materials Research Volume 98 Issue 5

Abstract

During sharp contacts, polymeric materials can exhibit elastic (reversible), plastic (instantaneous irreversible), and viscous (time-dependent irreversible) deformation. Due to viscous effects commonly observed in experiments conducted on polymeric materials, the analytical methods developed for instrumented indentation testing (“nanoindentation”) of elastic-plastic materials cannot be used to determine polymer mechanical properties. Here, a viscous-elastic-plastic sharp indentation model is reframed into normalized coordinates. The updated scheme allows the mechanical properties of polymeric materials to be determined simply from single- or multiple-cycle nanoindentation tests; output parameters are the relative resistance to plastic vs elastic deformation during indentation and the relative time scales for viscous flow during the contact event. The scheme allows the indentation behavior of all materials to be placed on a single map.

Keywords: Indentation; Nanoindentation; Viscoelastic; Viscous; Polymer
* Correspondence address, Robert F. Cook, Ceramics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 8520, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA, Tel.: +1 301 975 3207Fax: +1 301 975 5334 E-mail:

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Received: 2006-10-11
Accepted: 2007-1-14
Published Online: 2013-05-23
Published in Print: 2007-05-01

© 2007, Carl Hanser Verlag, München

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https://doi.org/10.3139/146.101480
Keywords for this article
Indentation; Nanoindentation; Viscoelastic; Viscous; Polymer

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Contents
  2. Contents
  3. Editorial
  4. Editorial
  5. Basic
  6. Getting accurate nanoindentation data from time-dependent and microstructural effects of zinc
  7. Indentation-induced densification of soda-lime silicate glass
  8. Nanomechanical characterization of relaxation processes in As–S chalcogenide glasses
  9. Nanoindentation behavior and mechanical properties measurement of polymeric materials
  10. Model of a superlattice indentation
  11. Nanomechanical studies of MEMS structures
  12. Mechanical properties of nanostructured polymer particles for anisotropic conductive adhesives
  13. Nanomechanical studies of ultrathin polymeric resist films
  14. Testing the viscoelastic properties of SU8 photo resist thin films at different stages of processing by nanoindentation creep and stress relaxation
  15. Microscale characterization of bitumen – back-analysis of viscoelastic properties by means of nanoindentation
  16. Applied
  17. Visco-elastic properties of thin nylon films using multi-cycling nanoindentation
  18. Area function calibration in nanoindentation using the hardness instead of Young's modulus of fused silica as a reference value
  19. Multiscale modelling of nanoindentation
  20. Unusual architecture of the exceedingly tough Macadamia “nut”-shell as revealed by atomic force microscopy and nanomechanics
  21. Notifications
  22. DGM News
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