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Room temperature constant-stress creep of a brittle solid studied by spherical nanoindentation
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Room temperature constant-stress creep of a brittle solid studied by spherical nanoindentation

Sandip Basu, Miladin Radovic and Michel W. Barsoum
Journal of applied physics, v 104(6), p063522
15 Sep 2008
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2975991

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Physical Sciences Physics Physics, Applied Science & Technology
Understanding room-temperature dislocation-based plastic deformation, in general, and time dependent deformation, in particular, in brittle solids is nontrivial. Herein, we describe a new constant-stress, spherical nanoindentation technique to study the creep of A-plane (11 (2) over bar0) ZnO single crystal. The time dependent deformation follows a power-law behavior, with a threshold stress, and a stress exponent of approximate to 3.1 +/- 0.3, attributed to the movement of dislocation pileups on basal planes. The results are used to estimate the time dependencies of the threshold stresses, number of pileup dislocations, and the distance between them. The method described herein can also be used to quantify other time dependent mechanical properties, such as fatigue and subcritical crack growth, at the submicron, and even nanoscale. The results can then-as done here-be compared to long established macroscale relationships thus elucidating the nature of the former. (C) 2008 American Institute of Physics. [DOI: 10.1063/1.2975991]

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