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Single versus successive pop-in modes in nanoindentation tests of single crystals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2016

Yuzhi Xia ,
Yanfei Gao ,
George M. Pharr  and
Hongbin Bei
Yuzhi Xia*
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996
Yanfei Gao
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996; and Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831
George M. Pharr
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996; and Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831
Hongbin Bei
Affiliation:
Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831
*
a) Address all correspondence to this author. e-mail: yuzhi.peter.xia@gmail.com
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Abstract

From recent nanoindentation experiments, two types of pop-in modes have been identified: a single pop-in with a large displacement excursion and a number of pop-ins with comparable and small displacement excursions. Theoretical analyses are developed here to study the roles played by indenter tip radius, pre-existing defect density, heterogeneous nucleation source type, and lattice resistance on the pop-in modes. The evolution of dislocation structures in earlier pop-ins provides input to modeling a stochastic, heterogeneous mechanism that may be responsible for the subsequent pop-ins. It is found that when the first pop-in occurs near theoretical shear stress, the pop-in mode is determined by the lattice resistance and tip radius. When the first pop-in occurs at low shear stress, whether the successive pop-in mode occurs depends on how the heterogeneous dislocation nucleation source density increases as compared to the increase of the total dislocation density. The above transitions are found to correlate well with the ratio of indenter tip radius to the mean spacing of dislocation nucleation sources.

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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 31 , Issue 14 , 28 July 2016 , pp. 2065 - 2075
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b)

Current address: 3M Company, St. Paul, MN.

Contributing Editor: Jürgen Eckert

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This author was an editor of this journal during the review and decision stage. For the JMR policy on review and publication of manuscripts authored by editors, please refer to http://www.mrs.org/editor-manuscripts/.

A previous error in this article has been corrected, see 10.1557/jmr.2017.245.

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