Computational & Technology Resources
an online resource for computational,
engineering & technology publications
Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 89
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
Edited by: M. Papadrakakis and B.H.V. Topping
Paper 142

Accessing Mechanical Properties of Engineering Materials via Virtual Nanoindentation

V. Gountsidou and H.M. Polatoglou

Physics Department, Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
V. Gountsidou, H.M. Polatoglou, "Accessing Mechanical Properties of Engineering Materials via Virtual Nanoindentation", in M. Papadrakakis, B.H.V. Topping, (Editors), "Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 142, 2008. doi:10.4203/ccp.89.142
Keywords: concrete, engineering materials, nanoindentation, modeling, mechanical properties.

Summary
Following the enormous development of the technology there is a great need for complex engineering materials to be studied in multilayered films with reinforcing fibres at the nano-level. Careful modeling of the structure of engineering materials, using finite element analysis, may reveal specific behavior of the component materials and their interface. Nowadays it seems to be very easy to succeed in virtual nanoindentation, a widely known nondestructive method.With the help of one of the most powerful computational tools of engineering problems, using finite element analysis programme ANSYS, we created a model of a rectangular material with a fibre, harder than the matrix material, having the shape of half-cylinder embedded in the middle of the top of the material and a small rectangular indenter. We constructed models for three different cases according to the position of the indenter in relation with the fibre and in every case studied the change of the mechanical properties of the materials.

purchase the full-text of this paper (price £20)

go to the previous paper
go to the next paper
return to the table of contents
return to the book description
purchase this book (price £95 +P&P)