Published September 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

TEM measurement of nanoindentation plastic zones in Ni3Al

  • 1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong (China)
  • 2. Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland (New Zealand)

Description

Nanoindentation tests were performed on Ni3Al and the dense dislocation zones underneath the nanoindents were examined by transmission electron microscopy. The size of these dense dislocation zones was found to be significantly larger than the Oliver-Pharr contact size especially at small indentation depths. The results support an earlier suggestion that the densely dislocated core of a nanoindent relaxes to give rise to a reduction of the measured hardness from the simple Nix-Gao prediction

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.scriptamat.2006.05.019;
PII
S1359-6462(06)00396-4;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Scripta Materialia
Journal Volume
55
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 557-560
ISSN
1359-6462
CODEN
SCMAF7

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Copyright (c) 2006 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.