Journal
ACTA MATERIALIA
Volume 58, Issue 20, Pages 6628-6636Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2010.08.025
Keywords
Nanoindentation; Micropillar compression; Nanolaminate; Focused ion beam
Funding
- National Science Foundation [DMR-0504781]
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Al/SiC nanolaminates possess an excellent combination of mechanical strength and flexibility. While nanoindentation provides a reasonable estimate of the mechanical properties such as Young's modulus and hardness of these materials, the stress state under nanoindentation is extremely complex. Micropillar compression has become an attractive method of studying the mechanical properties of materials at small length scales in a nominally homogeneous stress state. In this work, micropillars of Al/SiC nanolaminate were fabricated using focused ion beam milling. Compression testing was carried out using a flat-end nanoindenter head. The actual displacement of the pillar during micropillar compression was deconvoluted by subtracting the extraneous displacements of the system. Fractographic analysis showed that Al squeezes out between the SiC layers and that a mutual constraint is observed between the hard and soft layers. Numerical finite element modeling was also employed to provide physical insight into the deformation features of the multilayered pillar structure and agreed well with the experimental observations. (C) 2010 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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