The influence of indenter tip rounding on the indentation size effect

A model was developed to interpret the indentation size effect. The model considers the tip wear effect, causing a rounded tip, the plastic zone size and various strengthening contributions, including geometrically necessary dislocations, preexisting statistically stored dislocations and grain size....

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Main Authors: Qiao, Xiaoguang (Author), Starink, Marco J. (Author), Gao, Nong (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2010-06.
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