Construction of stess-strain curves for brittle materials by indentation in a wide temperature range

Abstract

A test method procedure for constructing stress-strain curves by indentation of brittle and low plastic materials under temperature ranging from 20 to 900 °C was developed recently by Yu. Milman, B. Galanov et al. According to this test method procedure stress-strain curves σ - ε for Si, Ge, SiC, TiB2 and WC/Co hard alloy were constructed in the above temperature region and mechanical parameters such as elastic point, σe, yield stress, σs, etc. were extracted by using the measurement results obtained by a set of trihedral pyramid indenters with different angles at the tip, γ1, ranging from 45 to 85°.