NIMS Matlab toolbox¶
The NIMS toolbox has been developed to plot and to analyze (nano)indentation data (obtained with conical indenters) for bulk material or multilayer sample.
- With this Matlab toolbox, it is possible to :
plot and correct nanoindentation dataset with standard deviation ;
calculate the coefficient of the power law fit of the load-displacement curve ;
calculate the energy of the loading (area below the load-displacement curve) ;
plot of the stiffness and the load/stiffness² evolution ;
calculate the Young’s modulus and hardness of bulk materials ;
calculate the Young’s modulus and hardness of thin films on a substrate (for a bilayer or a multilayer sample (until 3 layers on a substrate)) ;
generate Python script of axisymmetrical FEM model for use in ABAQUS (cono-spherical indentation of multilayer sample).
Source code is hosted at Github.
Contents¶
- Getting started
- Configuration
- Models for bulk material
- Nanoindentation tests on bulk material
- Dynamic nanoindentation
- Extraction of elastic properties
- Extraction of viscoelastic properties
- Extraction of plastic properties
- Energy approach
- Indentation recovery index
- Methodology to extract properties without the function area
- Methodology to minimize displacement measurement uncertainties using dynamic nanoindentation testing
- Indentation Size Effect
- References
- Models for thin films
- Nanoindentation tests on thin films
- Elastic properties of a thin film on a substrate
- Bückle (1961)
- Doerner and Nix (1986)
- Gao et al. (1992)
- Menčík et al. (1997)
- Menčík et al. (linear model) (1997)
- Menčík et al. (exponential model) (1997)
- Menčík et al. (reciprocal exponential model) (1997)
- Perriot et al. (2003)
- Jung et al. (2004)
- Bec et al. (2006)
- Korsunsky and Constantinescu (2009)
- Hay et al. (2011)
- Bull (2014)
- Argatov I.I. and Sabina F.J. (2016)
- Elastic properties of a thin film on a multilayer system
- Plastic properties of a thin film on a substrate
- Plastic properties of a thin film on a multilayer system
- References
- Minimization process
- Examples of nanoindentation data
- FEM model
- Links and References
- Links
- Other interesting Matlab toolboxes about indentation
- Links about (nano)indentation
- References
- (Nano)Indentation models (conical indenters)
- Correction factors and Correction of experimental data
- Bilayer models to extract Young’s modulus of a thin film on a substrate (with conical indenters)
- Multilayer models to extract Young’s moduli of thin films on a multilayer sample (with conical indenters)
- Bilayer models to extract hardness of a thin film on a substrate (with conical indenters)
- Multilayer models to extract hardness of thin films on a multilayer sample (with conical indenters)
- Finite Element Modelling of conical indentation of thin film(s) on a substrate
- Softwares
- Reviews / Overviews of nanoindentation technique
- Reviews / Overviews of nanoindentation technique applied to coatings
- Books
Contact¶
- Author:
David Mercier [1,2,3]
[1] CEA, 17 Avenue des Martyrs, 38000 Grenoble, France
[2] Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, 40237 Düsseldorf, Germany
[3] CRM Group, Avenue du Bois Saint-Jean 21, B27 – Quartier Polytech 4, 4000 Liège, Belgium
Acknowledgements¶
The author is grateful to Dr. V. Mandrillon from (CEA, France (Grenoble)) and to Dr. M. Verdier from (SIMaP, France (Grenoble)), for long discussions and many advices about nanoindentation.
The author is grateful to Dr. Igor Zlotnikov (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany (Potsdam)), for providing example files.
Keywords¶
Matlab toolbox ; nanoindentation ; conical indenter ; Young’s modulus ; hardness ; thin film ; multilayer system ; analytical model ; python script ; finite element modelling.