Determination of monotonic stress-strain curve of hard materials from ultra-low-load indentation tests

An improved technique for determining hardness and elastic modulus using load and displacement sensing indentation experiments

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Natural Sciences, Materials Engineering, Materials Science +16

The relation between load and penetration in the axisymmetric boussinesq problem for a punch of arbitrary profile

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A method for interpreting the data from depth-sensing indentation instruments

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The correlation of indentation experiments

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Hardness measurement at penetration depths as small as 20 nm

J. B. Pethicai, R. Hutchings, W. C. Oliver · Philosophical magazine. A/Philosophical magazine. A. Physics of condensed matter. Structure, defects and mechanical properties · 1983 · 924 citations

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