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EPSRC Reference: GR/J36792/01
Title: EQUIPMENT FOR MATERIALS CHARACTERISATION AT THE NANOMETRE SCALE: ADVANCED INDENTATION TESTING
Principal Investigator: Pethica, Professor J
Other Investigators:
Roberts, Professor SG Derby, Professor B
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Department: Materials
Organisation: University of Oxford
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 01 October 1993 Ends: 30 September 1995 Value (£): 59,537
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Materials Characterisation
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A high load, high frame stiffness nanoindenter will be implanted, with facilities for acoustic emission sensing. It will be applied to hardness and modulus testing of technically important systems, including implanted ceramics, amorphous carbon films, fibre motion in composites, and superhard films including diamond. Particular emphasis will be on quantitative use of acoustic emission to sense test energy release process, and on time dependence of deformation in polymeric films, with the aim of gaining insights into factors controlling the above deformation.
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