• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.297-301
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• 2004

The optimum design against contact crack initiation is investigated to find major parameters in designing desirable surface-coated asymmetric layered components. Hard ceramic coated soft materials with various elastic modulus mismatch are prepared for the analysis. Spherical indentation is conducted for producing contact cracks from the surface or interface between the coating and the substrate layer. A finite element analysis of the stress fields in the loaded layer components enables a direct correlation between the damage patterns and the stress distributions. Implications concerning the design of asymmetric layered components indicate that the coating thickness and the elastic modulus mismatch are important parameters for designing layered component to prevent the initiation of contact cracks.

• Composites Research
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.9-13
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• 2011

,In this paper, the symmetric axis parameter method, which was proposed to identify defects, dislocations and stacking fault, with perfect structures in the zinc-blende materials, was introduced as a way to distinguish between elastic and plastic deformation. LAMMPS, a molecular dynamics programme of Sandia National Laboratories, was used to perform nanoindentation simulation on silicon, a zinc-blende material. Defects in silicon (111) under spherical indentation showed the threefold pattern and the slip system in the form of ring crack. Also simulation results show good agreement with experimental results and existing theoretical analyses.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.353-360
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• 2010

In this paper, an efficient algorithm is established in order to estimate the plastic properties of power-law hardening bulk specimen materials with one simple spherical indentation impression test. This work is based on a new formulation of representative strain and, therefore, compare to the preceding approaches the fitting parameters are significantly reduced. Moreover, the new definition of representative strain endowed more physical meaning to the representative strain. In order to verify the reliability of the reverse analysis, we have studied a broad set of materials whose property ranges cover essentially all engineering metals and alloys. Based on the indentation force-displacement P-${\delta}$ curves obtained from numerical simulations, the characteristics of the indentation response and material elastoplastic properties are bridged via explicit functions. Next, through the procedure of reverse analysis the yield stress and power-law hardening exponent of bulk specimen materials can be determined. Finally, good agreement between the result from reverse analysis and initial input data from experiment can be observed.

• Composites Research
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.17-24
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• 2011

The EAM simulation of nanoindentation was performed to investigate misfit dislocation slip in the Ag/Cu. The film layer, whose thickness in the range of 2-5nm, was indented by a spherical indenter with the N$\'{o}$se-Hoover thermostat condition. The simulation shows that the indentation position relative to misfit dislocation (MFD) has the effect on the dislocation, glide up or cross slip, for Ag film layer thickness less than 4 nm. Elastic energy variation during MFDs slip was revealed to be a key factor for the softening of Ag/Cu. The critical film layer thickness was evaluated for each case of Ag/Cu according to the spline extrapolation technique.