Morgan C. Chamberlain

Simulations of micro- and nanoindentation of pentaerythritol tetranitrate including size effects

Nanoindentation with a Knoop indenter tip can reveal the plastic response of brittle materials, which is contained in the measured Knoop hardness anisotropy and force–displacement curves. Due to short length scales, details of the local dislocation distribution and dislocation stresses cannot be ignored in the analysis...