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  Session 19: How to Test 3D-Printed Titanium

  3D printing is the disruptive manufacturing method of the 21st century. In many ways, it is inferior to traditional m...

  Posted Wednesday, October 14, 2020

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  Session 17: High Speed Nanoindentation

  With careful attention to instrumentation and software, nanoindentation experiments can be accomplished at a rate fas...

  Posted Wednesday, October 14, 2020

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  Session 18: How to Prepare Porous 3D-Printed Titanium for Nanoindentation

  Mr. Crawford (former manager of the materials-testing laboratory at Johns Hopkins University) shows how to prepare a ...

  Posted Friday, September 25, 2020

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  Dr. Benoit Merle - Nanoindentation at high strain rates - Challenges and recent advances

  Nanoindentation is typically performed at slow strain rates < ~0.1/s, which precludes it from ballistic applicatio...

  Posted Wednesday, June 17, 2020

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  Session 14: How to Test 40nm DLC Coatings on Silicon

  The first and most enduring application of nanoindentation is the characterization of hard coatings designed for mech...

  Posted Wednesday, May 13, 2020

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  Nanoindentation - A Strength Microprobe

  Dr. W.C. Oliver and Dr. G.M. Pharr's 1992 publication titled ‘An improved technique for determining hardness and elas...

  Posted Tuesday, April 14, 2020

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  Session 13: The Onset of Plasticity in Nanoindentation (Mechanics of Plasticity)

  Valid hardness measurements require actually causing plasticity. Thus, we must know the threshold and locus for the ...

  Posted Thursday, April 9, 2020

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  Session 12 - How to Test Low-k Thin Films by Nanoindentation

  In digital circuits, materials with low permittivity separate the conducting parts from one another; materials with l...

  Posted Wednesday, March 11, 2020

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  Indentation University - Session 11: Nanoindentation of Thin Films

  Substrate influence is a common problem when using nanoindentation to evaluate the elastic modulus of thin films. In...

  Posted Wednesday, February 12, 2020

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  Indentation University - Session 10: Verifying Your Nanoindenter

  How do you know that your nanoindenter is working properly? In this session, Ms. Hay demonstrates the verification pr...

  Posted Wednesday, February 12, 2020

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  Indentation University - Session 9: Frame Stiffness and Tip Area Function

  Two nanoindentation calibrations are accomplished by means of indentation experiments on a reference material. These ...

  Posted Tuesday, January 7, 2020

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  Indentation University - Session 8: How to Test Optical Coatings

  Although optical coatings are designed for the control of light (anti-reflective, reflective, splitting, filtering, e...

  Posted Wednesday, November 27, 2019