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Relationships between initial unloading slope, contact depth, and mechanical properties for conical indentation in linear viscoelastic solids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2005

Yang-Tse Cheng  and
Che-Min Cheng
Yang-Tse Cheng*
Affiliation:
Materials and Processes Laboratory, General Motors Research and Development Center, Warren, Michigan 48090
Che-Min Cheng
Affiliation:
Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, People's Republic of China
*
a) Address all correspondence to this author. e-mail: yang.t.cheng@gm.com This author was an editor of this journal during the review and decision stage. For the JMR policy on review and publication of manuscripts authored by editors, please refer to http://www.mrs.org/publications/jmr/policy.html.
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Abstract

Using analytical and finite element modeling, we studied conical indentation in linear viscoelastic solids with either displacement or load as the independent variable. We examine the relationships between initial unloading slope, contact depth, and viscoelastic properties for various loading conditions such as constant displacement rate, constant loading rate, and constant indentation strain rate. We then discuss whether the Oliver–Pharr method for determining contact depth, originally proposed for indentation in elastic and elastic-plastic solids, is applicable to indentation in viscoelastic solids. We conclude with a few comments about two commonly used experimental procedures for indentation measurements in viscoelastic solids: the “hold-at-peak-load” technique and the constant indentation strain-rate method.

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IndentationMechanical propertiesItheory

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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , April 2005 , pp. 1046 - 1053
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2005

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