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Title: Thermomechanical Response of Layered Materials. Final technical report

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/763959· OSTI ID:763959

A new experimental technique involving instrumented indentation was demonstrated for the specific purpose of calibrating certain variations in elastic properties as a function of position in thermally sprayed and sintered materials. This work experimentally demonstrated for the first time that controlled gradients in elastic properties alone can lead to the suppression of damage and cracking during contact loading. New methods were developed in this work for the estimation of mechanical properties of ductile alloys and brittle ceramics by recourse to continuous measurements of load-penetration curves with spherical microindenters.

Research Organization:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
US Department of Energy (US)
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-93ER45506
OSTI ID:
763959
Report Number(s):
DE-FG02-93ER45506-Final; TRN: AH200103%%547
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 20 May 2000
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English