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1. NanoindentationLecture 1 Basic Principle Do Kyung Kim
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
KAIST
2. Indentation test (Hardness test) Hardness resistance to penetration of a hard indenter
3. Hardness Hardness is a measure of a materials resistance to surface penetration by an indenter with a force applied to it.
Hardness
Brinell, 10 mm indenter, 3000 kg Load F /surface area of indentation A
Vickers, diamond pyramid indentation
Microhardness
Vickers microindentation : size of pyramid comparable to microstructural features. You can use to assess relative hardness of various phases or microconstituents.
Nanoindentation
5. Microhardness - Vickers and Knoop
6. Microindentation
7. Nanoindentation Nanoindentation is called as,
The depth sensing indentation
The instrumented indentation
Nanoindentation method gained popularity with the development of,
Machines that can record small load and displacement with high accuracy and precision
Analytical models by which the load-displacement data can be used to determine modulus, hardness and other mechanical properties.
8. Micro vs Nano Indentation MicroindentationA prescribed load appled to an indenter in contact with a specimen and the load is then removed and the area of the residual impression is measured. The load divided by the by the area is called the hardness.
NanoindentationA prescribed load is appled to an indenter in contact with a specimen. As the load is applied, the depth of penetration is measured. The area of contact at full load is determined by the depth of the impression and the known angle or radius of the indenter. The hardness is found by dividing the load by the area of contact. Shape of the unloading curve provides a measure of elastic modulus.
9. Basic Hertzs elastic solution (1890s)
10. Schematics of indenter tips
11. 4-sided indenters
12. 3-sided indenters
13. Cone indenters
14. Indenter geometry
15. Stress field under indenter - contact field
16. Sharp indenter (Berkovich)
17. Blunt indenter - spherical tip
18. Data Ananlysis P : applied load
h : indenter displacement
hr : plastic deformation after load removal
he : surface displacement at the contact perimeter
19. Analytical Model Basic Concept Nearly all of the elements of this analysis were first developed by workers at the Baikov Institute of Metallurgy in Moscow during the 1970's (for a review see Bulychev and Alekhin). The basic assumptions of this approach are
Deformation upon unloading is purely elastic
The compliance of the sample and of the indenter tip can be combined as springs in series
The contact can be modeled using an analytical model for contact between a rigid indenter of defined shape with a homogeneous isotropic elastic half space using
where S is the contact stiffness and A the contact area. This relation was presented by Sneddon. Later, Pharr, Oliver and Brotzen where able to show that the equation is a robust equation which applies to tips with a wide range of shapes.
20. Analytical Model Doerner-Nix Model
21. Analytical Model Field and Swain They treated the indentation as a reloading of a preformed impression with depth hf into reconformation with the indenter.
22. Analytical Model Oliver and Pharr
23. Continuous Stiffness Measurement (CSM) The nanoindentation system applies a load to the indenter tip to force the tip into the surface while simultaneously superimposing an oscillating force with a force amplitude generally several orders of magnitude smaller than the nominal load.
It provides accurate measurements of contact stiffness at all depth.
The stiffness values enable us to calculate the contact radius at any depth more precisely.
24. Analysis result
25. One of the most cited paper in Materials Science
26. Material response
27. Nanoindenter tips
28. Berkovich indenter
29. Berkovich vs Vickers indenter
30. Commercial machines
31. Commercial machine implementation
32. Force actuation
33. Displacement measurement
34. Factor affecting nanoindentation Thermal Drift
Initial penetration depth
Instrument compliance
Indenter geometry
Piling-up and sinking-in
Indentation size effect
Surface roughness
Tip rounding
Residual stress
Specimen preparation
35. Thermal drift Drift can be due to vibration or a thermal drift
Thermal drift can be due to
Different thermal expansion in the machine
Heat generation in the electronic devices
Drift might have parallel and/or a perpendicular component to the indenter axis
Thermal drift is especially important when studying time varying phenomena like creep.
36. Thermal drift calibration
37. Machine compliance Displacement arising from the compliance of the testing machine must be subtracted from the load-displacement data
The machine compliance includes compliances in the sample and tip mounting and may vary from test to test
It is feasible to identify the machine compliance by the direct measurement of contact area of various indents in a known material
Anther way is to derive the machine compliance as the intercept of 1/total contact stiffness vs 1/ sqrt(maximum load) plot, if the Youngs modulus and hardness are assumed to be depth-independent
38. Machine compliance calibration
39. Real tip shape Deviation from perfect shape
40. Area function calibration Ideal tip geometry yields the following area-to-depth ratio:A = 24.5 hc2
Real tips are not perfect!
CalibrationUse material with known elastic properties (typically fused silica) and determine its area as a function of contact
41. Surface roughness As sample roughness does have a significant effect on the measured mechanical properties, one could either try to incorporate a model to account for the roughness or try to use large indentation depths at which the influence of the surface roughness is negligible.
A model to account for roughness effects on the measured hardness is proposed by Bobji and Biswas.
Nevertheless it should be noticed that any model will only be able to account for surface roughnesses which are on lateral dimensions significantly smaller compared to the geometry of the indent
42. Pile-up and Sinking-in
43. Phase transition measurement Nanoindentation on silicon and Raman analysis
44. Creep measurement
45. Fracture toughness measurement
46. High temperature measurement Nanindentation with or without calibration
47. Nanomechanical testing Tests
Nanohardness/Elastic modulus
Continuous Stiffness Measurements
Acoustic Emmisions
Properties at Various Temperature
Friction Coefficient
Wear Tests
Adhesion
NanoScratch Resistance
Fracture Toughness
Delamination