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Loading Rate Effect on Nanohardness of Soda-Lime-Silica Glass

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To understand how hardness, the key design parameter for applications of brittle solids such as glass concerning contact deformation, is affected by loading rate variation, nanoindentation with a Berkovich tip was used to measure the nanohardness of a 330-μm-thick soda-lime-silica glass as a function of loading rate (1 to 1000 mN·s−1). The results showed for the very first time that, with variations in the loading rate, there was a 6 to 9 pct increase in the nanohardness of glass up to a threshold loading rate (TLR), whereafter it did not appreciably increase with further increase in loading rate. Further, the nanohardness data showed an indentation size effect (ISE) that obeyed the Meyer’s law. These observations were explained in terms of a strong shear stress component developed just beneath the nanoindenter and the related shear-induced deformation processes at local microstructural scale weak links. The significant or insignificant presence of shear-induced serrations in load depth plots and corresponding scanning electron microscopic evidence of a strong or mild presence of shear deformation bands in and around the nanoindentation cavity supported such a rationalization. Finally, a qualitative picture was developed for different deformation processes induced at various loading rates in glass.

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The authors are grateful to the Director, Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute (CGCRI), Kolkata, for his kind permission to publish this article. In addition, the authors appreciate the infrastructural support received from all colleagues and particularly those received from the colleagues of the Mechanical Test Section at CGCRI. Finally, the authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support received from CSIR (Network Project TAREMAC No. NWP 0027). One of the authors (AD) also earnestly acknowledges the grant of a Senior Research Fellowship from CSIR, India (ACK No. 141011/2K8/2).

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  1. Mechanical Test Section, Non-Oxide Ceramic and Composite Division, Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata, 700 032, India

    Riya Chakraborty (Junior Research Fellow), Arjun Dey (Senior Research Fellow (CSIR) & Anoop Kumar Mukhopadhyay (Head and Scientist)

  2. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, India

    Riya Chakraborty (Junior Research Fellow), Arjun Dey (Senior Research Fellow (CSIR) & Anoop Kumar Mukhopadhyay (Head and Scientist)

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Chakraborty, R., Dey, A. & Mukhopadhyay, A.K. Loading Rate Effect on Nanohardness of Soda-Lime-Silica Glass. Metall Mater Trans A 41, 1301–1312 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-010-0176-8

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