Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Unique universal scaling in nanoindentation pop-ins

  • Yuji Sato,
  • Shuhei Shinzato,
  • Takahito Ohmura,
  • Takahiro Hatano,
  • Shigenobu Ogata

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17918-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Although power laws are observed during nanoindentation and the power-law exponents are estimated to be approximately 1.5-1.6 for face-centered cubic metals, the origin of the exponent remains unclear. In this paper, we show the power-law statistics in pop-in magnitudes and unveil the nature of the exponent.