Shear Properties of Polymer Films Within Confined Contacts

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Gacoin ◽  
C. Fretigny ◽  
A. Chateauminois
Keyword(s):  
Plastic Deformation ◽  
Hydrostatic Pressure ◽  
Polymer Films ◽  
Mechanical Response ◽  
Contact Stiffness ◽  
Shear Moduli ◽  
Lateral Contact ◽  
Contact Models ◽  
Film Substrate ◽  
Material Compressibility

Approximate contact models for film/substrate systems have been developed and validated in order to determine the shear moduli of mechanically confined films using lateral contact stiffness measurements. This approach allowed to discuss the effects of material compressibility, hydrostatic pressure and plastic deformation on the mechanical response of thin polymers films within macroscopic contacts.

Direct measurement of mechanical properties of (Pb,La)TiO3 ferroelectric thin films using nanoindentation techniques

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 993-1002 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Algueró ◽  
A. J. Bushby ◽  
M. J. Reece
Keyword(s):  
Thin Films ◽  
Plastic Deformation ◽  
Lead Titanate ◽  
Mechanical Response ◽  
High Spatial Resolution ◽  
Ferroelectric Thin Films ◽  
Intergranular Porosity ◽  
Major Mechanism ◽  
Wall Movement ◽  
Film Substrate

A procedure using nanoindentation with spherical tipped indenters is presented that allows separation of elastic, anelastic, and plastic contributions to the deformation of thin films. The procedure was demonstrated on a range of lanthanum-modified lead titanate (Pb,La)TiO3 (PTL) ferroelectric thin films. Indentation stiffness coefficients ranging from 110 to 147 GPa have been obtained depending on the microstructure and orientation of the PTL films. This coefficient was equivalent to (and so, can be directly compared with) Young's modulus of a nontextured, unpoled ceramic when films do not present preferred orientation. The trends of the anelastic contribution with the thickness, structure, microstructure, and stress level at the film/substrate interface of the films were consistent with it being produced by ferroelastic domain wall movement. Pore compaction was a major mechanism of plastic deformation for the PTL films. Grain size also affected plastic deformation, probably as a consequence of its correlation with intergranular porosity. The technique has a high spatial resolution (contact area < 10 μm2 for the results presented here), which allowed the mechanical homogeneity of the films to be studied and inhomogeneities to be identified from their mechanical response (elastic, anelastic, and plastic).

Construction of plastic contact deformation maps on ceramics: a case study on aluminum nitride

1996 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 636-637
Author(s):  
D. L. Callahan
Keyword(s):  
Plastic Deformation ◽  
Aluminum Nitride ◽  
Mechanical Response ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Bright Field Image ◽  
Perfectly Plastic ◽  
Contrast Analysis ◽  
Deformation Patterns

Modern polishing, precision machining and microindentation techniques allow the processing and mechanical characterization of ceramics at nanometric scales and within entirely plastic deformation regimes. The mechanical response of most ceramics to such highly constrained contact is not predictable from macroscopic properties and the microstructural deformation patterns have proven difficult to characterize by the application of any individual technique. In this study, TEM techniques of contrast analysis and CBED are combined with stereographic analysis to construct a three-dimensional microstructure deformation map of the surface of a perfectly plastic microindentation on macroscopically brittle aluminum nitride.The bright field image in Figure 1 shows a lg Vickers microindentation contained within a single AlN grain far from any boundaries. High densities of dislocations are evident, particularly near facet edges but are not individually resolvable. The prominent bend contours also indicate the severity of plastic deformation. Figure 2 is a selected area diffraction pattern covering the entire indentation area.

Molecular Dynamics Modeling the Nano-Identation of Titanium

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peiqiang Yang ◽  
Xueping Zhang ◽  
Zhenqiang Yao ◽  
Rajiv Shivpuri
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Dynamics ◽  
Plastic Deformation ◽  
Titanium Alloys ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Mechanical Response ◽  
Pure Titanium ◽  
Dynamics Modeling ◽  
Dynamics Model ◽  
Nano Indentation ◽  
Molecular Dynamics Modeling

Abstract Titanium alloys’ excellent mechanical and physical properties make it the most popular material widely used in aerospace, medical, nuclear and other significant industries. The study of titanium alloys mainly focused on the macroscopic mechanical mechanism. However, very few researches addressed the nanostructure of titanium alloys and its mechanical response in Nano-machining due to the difficulty to perform and characterize nano-machining experiment. Compared with nano-machining, nano-indentation is easier to characterize the microscopic plasticity of titanium alloys. This research presents a nano-indentation molecular dynamics model in titanium to address its microstructure alteration, plastic deformation and other mechanical response at the atomistic scale. Based on the molecular dynamics model, a complete nano-indentation cycle, including the loading and unloading stages, is performed by applying Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator (LAMMPS). The plastic deformation mechanism of nano-indentation of titanium with a rigid diamond ball tip was studied under different indentation velocities. At the same time, the influence of different environment temperatures on the nano-plastic deformation of titanium is analyzed under the condition of constant indentation velocity. The simulation results show that the Young’s modulus of pure titanium calculated based on nano-indentation is about 110GPa, which is very close to the experimental results. The results also show that the mechanical behavior of titanium can be divided into three stages: elastic stage, yield stage and plastic stage during the nano-indentation process. In addition, indentation speed has influence on phase transitions and nucleation of dislocations in the range of 0.1–1.0 Å/ps.

scholarly journals Friction and Mechanical Properties of AFM-Scan-Induced Ripples in Polymer Films

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Friedrich ◽  
Brunero Cappella
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Polymer Films ◽  
Mechanical Response ◽  
Butyl Methacrylate ◽  
Clear Correlation ◽  
Contact Mode ◽  
Cantilever Deflection ◽  
Atomic Force ◽  
Volume Measurements ◽  
Force Volume

When compliant samples such as polymer films are scanned with an atomic force microscope (AFM) in contact mode, a periodic ripple pattern can be induced on the sample. In the present paper, friction and mechanical properties of such ripple structures on films of polystyrene (PS) and poly-n-(butyl methacrylate) (PnBMA) are investigated. Force volume measurements allow a quantitative analysis of the elastic moduli with nanometer resolution, showing a contrast in mechanical response between bundles and troughs. Additionally, analysis of the lateral cantilever deflection when scanning on pre-machined ripples shows a clear correlation between friction and the sample topography. Those results support the theory of crack propagation and the formation of voids as a mechanism responsible for the formation of ripples. This paper also shows the limits of the presented measuring methods for soft, compliant, and small structures. Special care must be taken to ensure that the analysis is not affected by artefacts.

scholarly journals PLASTIC DEFORMATION OF THICK-WALLED SNOW-ICE CYLINDERS UNDER HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE

1962 ◽  
Vol 40 (10) ◽  
pp. 1310-1318 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. H. G. Jellinek
Keyword(s):  
Activation Energy ◽  
Plastic Deformation ◽  
Hydrostatic Pressure ◽  
Strain Rate ◽  
Plastic Flow ◽  
Constant Pressure ◽  
Circumferential Stress ◽  
Sine Function ◽  
Kcal Mole ◽  
Flow Process

The results of experiments on the plastic deformation of hollow snow-ice cylinders, closed at one end, as a function of circumferential stress and temperature are discussed. Data are graphed on deformation as a function of time for a snow-ice cylinder under 7.03 and 14.06 kg/cm2 hydrostatic pressure at −4.5 °C, deformation as a function of hydrostatic pressure from 2.11 to 7.03 kg/cm2, and deformation as a function of temperature at a constant pressure of 10.55 kg/cm2. The natural strain rate of closure at constant circumferential stress and temperature was a constant, which varied with circumferential stress as a sine function and was "exponentially dependent on temperature, with an activation energy of 14.1 kcal/mole at an average circumferential stress of 3.1 kg/cm2. The experiments agree well with an earlier interpretation of the plastic flow process representing flow between grain boundaries.

The Elastic Mechanical Response of Supported Thin Polymer Films

Langmuir ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (50) ◽  
pp. 15200-15205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter C. Chung ◽  
Emmanouil Glynos ◽  
Peter F. Green
Keyword(s):  
Polymer Films ◽  
Mechanical Response ◽  
Thin Polymer Films ◽  
Thin Polymer

Indentation plastic displacement field: Part I. The case of soft films on hard substrates

1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 2196-2203 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Y. Tsui ◽  
Joost Vlassak ◽  
William D. Nix
Keyword(s):  
Plastic Deformation ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Focused Ion Beam ◽  
Ion Beam ◽  
Porous Titanium ◽  
Titanium Layer ◽  
Plastic Deformation Behavior ◽  
Plastic Displacement ◽  
Film Substrate ◽  
Made In

The plastic deformation behavior of Knoop indentations made in a soft, porous titanium/aluminum multilayered thin film on a hard silicon substrate is studied through use of the focused-ion-beam milling and imaging technique. Pileup is observed for indentations with depths larger than 30% of the total film thickness. Analysis of the indentation cross sections shows that plastic deformation around the indentation is partly accommodated by the closing of the pores within the multilayers. This densification process reduces the amount of pileup formed below that predicted by finite element simulations. Experimental results show that the pileup is formed by an increase of the titanium layer thickness near the edges of the indentation. The thickness increase is largest near the film/substrate interface and decreases toward the surface of the multilayered film. The amount of normal compression near the center of the indenter is characterized, and it is demonstrated that the deformation becomes more nonuniform with increasing indentation depth.

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