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Effect of temperature and strain rate on indentation size effect at shallow indentation depths

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Title: Effect of temperature and strain rate on indentation size effect at shallow indentation depths
Authors: Haušild P., Čech J., Merle B., Nohava J.
Publisher Information: Elsevier
Publication Year: 2025
Collection: Czech Technical University in Prague: Digital Library / České vysoké učení technické v Praze: Digitální knihovna ČVUT
Subject Terms: Nanoindentation, Hardness, Indentation size effect, Effective plastic zone, Dislocations, Strain rate
Description: This study investigates the indentation size effect in a bcc silicon iron single-crystal tested at different temperatures and strain rates. The classical Nix-Gao model based on strain gradient plasticity and geometrically necessary dislocations starts to deviate from experimental data at small depths due to dislocation interactions not accounted for. Using a modified Nix-Gao model that incorporates lattice friction and the effective plastic zone effect, the indentation response can be more accurately captured. The study found that at depths exceeding approximately 1 mu m, the increase in hardness due to Taylor hardening is independent of temperature and strain rate and can be well captured by the Nix-Gao model with temperature- and strain rate-dependent lattice friction parameter. However, at submicron depths, the deviation from the Nix-Gao model is temperature and strain rate dependent and can be accounted for using the concept of the effective plastic zone. Higher temperatures and strain rates result in less GNDs escaping from the indentation process zone, leading to an apparently more pronounced indentation size effect compared to room temperature and/or slow strain rates.
Document Type: article in journal/newspaper
File Description: application/pdf
Language: English
Relation: Materials & Design; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/OPJAK/CZ.02.01.01%2F00%2F22_008%2F0004591/CZ/Ferroic Multifunctionalities/FerrMion; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports/LU/LUC24135/CZ/Application of micromechanical testing for study of materials in nano-volumes/; https://hdl.handle.net/10467/125605; 001510031400002
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2025.114196
Availability: https://hdl.handle.net/10467/125605
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2025.114196
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 ; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ; openAccess
Accession Number: edsbas.117F7240
Database: BASE
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