Correcting for contact area changes in nanoindentation using surface acoustic waves

Christian E. Beck; Felix Hofmann; Jeffrey K. Eliason; Alexei A. Maznev; Keith A. Nelson; David E.J. Armstrong

doi:10.1016/j.scriptamat.2016.09.037

Correcting for contact area changes in nanoindentation using surface acoustic waves

Christian E. Beck, Felix Hofmann, Jeffrey K. Eliason, Alexei A. Maznev, Keith A. Nelson, David E.J. Armstrong

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

31 Scopus citations

Abstract

Nanoindentation is extensively used to quantify nano-scale mechanical behaviour. A widely-used assumption is that a well-defined, material-independent relationship exists between the indentation depth and indenter contact area. Here we demonstrate that this assumption is violated by ion-implanted tungsten, where pileup around the indenter tip leads to substantial changes in contact area. Using high accuracy surface acoustic wave measurements of elastic modulus, we are able to correct for this effect. Importantly we demonstrate that a priori knowledge of elastic properties can be readily used to compensate for pileup effects in nanoindentation without the need for any further measurements.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	83-86
Number of pages	4
Journal	Scripta Materialia
Volume	128
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2016.09.037
State	Published - Feb 1 2017
Externally published	Yes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We are grateful to N. Peng for carrying out the ion implantation at Surrey National Ion Beam Centre, UK. DEJA acknowledges support from the Royal Academy of Engineering through a Research Fellowship. FH acknowledges funding from the John Fell fund ( 122/643 ) and the Royal Society ( RG130308 ). The SAW measurements at MIT were supported by NSF grant no. CHE-1111557 . This work was part-funded by the United Kingdom Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council via programme grant EP/H018921/1 . The data in this paper is available on Oxford Research Archive [30] .

Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Acta Materialia Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Keywords

Ion implantation
Irradiation
Nanoindentation
Pile-up
Surface acoustic waves

Publisher link

10.1016/j.scriptamat.2016.09.037

Find It

Find It at U of M Libraries

Cite this

@article{fd414d195c3f4da2ba9c27230cf00472,

title = "Correcting for contact area changes in nanoindentation using surface acoustic waves",

abstract = "Nanoindentation is extensively used to quantify nano-scale mechanical behaviour. A widely-used assumption is that a well-defined, material-independent relationship exists between the indentation depth and indenter contact area. Here we demonstrate that this assumption is violated by ion-implanted tungsten, where pileup around the indenter tip leads to substantial changes in contact area. Using high accuracy surface acoustic wave measurements of elastic modulus, we are able to correct for this effect. Importantly we demonstrate that a priori knowledge of elastic properties can be readily used to compensate for pileup effects in nanoindentation without the need for any further measurements.",

keywords = "Ion implantation, Irradiation, Nanoindentation, Pile-up, Surface acoustic waves",

author = "Beck, {Christian E.} and Felix Hofmann and Eliason, {Jeffrey K.} and Maznev, {Alexei A.} and Nelson, {Keith A.} and Armstrong, {David E.J.}",

note = "Funding Information: We are grateful to N. Peng for carrying out the ion implantation at Surrey National Ion Beam Centre, UK. DEJA acknowledges support from the Royal Academy of Engineering through a Research Fellowship. FH acknowledges funding from the John Fell fund ( 122/643 ) and the Royal Society ( RG130308 ). The SAW measurements at MIT were supported by NSF grant no. CHE-1111557 . This work was part-funded by the United Kingdom Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council via programme grant EP/H018921/1 . The data in this paper is available on Oxford Research Archive [30] . Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 Acta Materialia Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)",

year = "2017",

month = feb,

day = "1",

doi = "10.1016/j.scriptamat.2016.09.037",

language = "English (US)",

volume = "128",

pages = "83--86",

journal = "Scripta Materialia",

issn = "1359-6462",

publisher = "Elsevier Limited",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Correcting for contact area changes in nanoindentation using surface acoustic waves

AU - Beck, Christian E.

AU - Hofmann, Felix

AU - Eliason, Jeffrey K.

AU - Maznev, Alexei A.

AU - Nelson, Keith A.

AU - Armstrong, David E.J.

N1 - Funding Information: We are grateful to N. Peng for carrying out the ion implantation at Surrey National Ion Beam Centre, UK. DEJA acknowledges support from the Royal Academy of Engineering through a Research Fellowship. FH acknowledges funding from the John Fell fund ( 122/643 ) and the Royal Society ( RG130308 ). The SAW measurements at MIT were supported by NSF grant no. CHE-1111557 . This work was part-funded by the United Kingdom Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council via programme grant EP/H018921/1 . The data in this paper is available on Oxford Research Archive [30] . Publisher Copyright: © 2016 Acta Materialia Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

PY - 2017/2/1

Y1 - 2017/2/1

N2 - Nanoindentation is extensively used to quantify nano-scale mechanical behaviour. A widely-used assumption is that a well-defined, material-independent relationship exists between the indentation depth and indenter contact area. Here we demonstrate that this assumption is violated by ion-implanted tungsten, where pileup around the indenter tip leads to substantial changes in contact area. Using high accuracy surface acoustic wave measurements of elastic modulus, we are able to correct for this effect. Importantly we demonstrate that a priori knowledge of elastic properties can be readily used to compensate for pileup effects in nanoindentation without the need for any further measurements.

AB - Nanoindentation is extensively used to quantify nano-scale mechanical behaviour. A widely-used assumption is that a well-defined, material-independent relationship exists between the indentation depth and indenter contact area. Here we demonstrate that this assumption is violated by ion-implanted tungsten, where pileup around the indenter tip leads to substantial changes in contact area. Using high accuracy surface acoustic wave measurements of elastic modulus, we are able to correct for this effect. Importantly we demonstrate that a priori knowledge of elastic properties can be readily used to compensate for pileup effects in nanoindentation without the need for any further measurements.

KW - Ion implantation

KW - Irradiation

KW - Nanoindentation

KW - Pile-up

KW - Surface acoustic waves

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84991822028&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=84991822028&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.scriptamat.2016.09.037

DO - 10.1016/j.scriptamat.2016.09.037

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:84991822028

SN - 1359-6462

VL - 128

SP - 83

EP - 86

JO - Scripta Materialia

JF - Scripta Materialia

ER -

Correcting for contact area changes in nanoindentation using surface acoustic waves

Abstract

Bibliographical note

Keywords

Publisher link

Find It

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this