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Microindentation as a method for determining important material properties of paper coating materials is studied experimentally and numerically. The bulk of the investigation is concentrated upon the short-lived elastic part of a spherical indentation test, but determination of the failure stress of the coating is also discussed. The results indicate that microindentation can be a powerful tool for material characterization of these materials, but only if careful efforts are made to account for the influence from plasticity as well as from boundary effects.
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Barbier, C., Larsson, PL., Östlund, S. et al. On material characterization of paper coating materials by microindentation testing. J Coat Technol Res 2, 463–471 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02733889
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