Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
800588 Mechanics of Materials 2008 13 Pages PDF
Abstract

The increasing use of polymeric materials as thin coatings requires appropriate mechanical characterization methods at micro and nano-scale taking account of time-dependent effects. In this paper, a nanoindentation method developed initially for elastoplastic solids is extended to elasto-viscoplastic solids. It allows to determine very easily and quickly a first approximation of the stress–strain curves of Bingham–Norton elastic–viscoplastic materials. The procedure is based on the use of different indenter geometries and different loading conditions. The method is then extended to the mechanical characterization of glassy polymers in assuming a G’sell law for describing their behaviour in compression. In the last part, we apply this method to nanoindentation tests on PMMA, PS and PC samples.

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