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Probing the Strain Hardening Response of Small Wear Volumes with Nanoindentation

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In order to characterize the wear and related mechanical behavior of materials from small volumes, a program employing nanoscratch and nanoindentation was performed. Nanoscratch techniques were used to generate square wear patterns with varying degrees of shear strain followed by nanoindentation tests to measure the mechanical properties within the deformation area. Results show a systematic increase in hardness with both the applied load and number of nanoscratch passes. An analytical approach was used to determine the stress-strain response and strain hardening behavior of electroformed nickel. The strain hardening exponent determined from this method follows the work hardening behavior established from previous tensile tests, supporting the use of a nanomechanics-based approach for evaluating the mechanical properties of wear-tested material.

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Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company, for the United States Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under Contract No. DE-AC04-94AL85000.

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  1. Department of Material Physics, University of Leoben, Leoben, USA

    M. J. Cordill (Scientist, Research Student)

  2. Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 8700, Leoben, Austria

    M. J. Cordill (Scientist, Research Student)

  3. Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    M. J. Cordill (Scientist, Research Student), J. M. Jungk (Research Student), W. M. Mook (Research Student, Postdoctoral Researcher) & W. W. Gerberich (Professor)

  4. Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA

    N. R. Moody (Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff)

  5. Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, 87158, USA

    J. M. Jungk (Research Student) & S. V. Prasad (Member of the Technical Staff)

  6. School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 99164, USA

    M. S. Kennedy (Research Student, Assistant Professor) & D. F. Bahr (Professor)

  7. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 29634, USA

    M. S. Kennedy (Research Student, Assistant Professor)

  8. EMPA, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, Laboratory for Mechanics of Materials and Nanostructures, CH-3602, Thun, Switzerland

    W. M. Mook (Research Student, Postdoctoral Researcher)

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Cordill, M.J., Moody, N.R., Jungk, J.M. et al. Probing the Strain Hardening Response of Small Wear Volumes with Nanoindentation. Metall Mater Trans A 42, 2226–2232 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-011-0629-8

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