This standard course, organized in partnership with Alemnis and Queen Mary College of London, will happen on the Discovery Studying Lab (DLL), EPFL.
Who ought to attend
This course is meant for present nanoindentation customers who wish to achieve the expertise and data required to extract helpful knowledge from difficult pattern supplies and in addition for customers of typical indentation strategies (Vickers, Rockwell, Knoop, and so on.) who’re considering of including instrumented indentation to their portfolio of sensible take a look at methods. The course is also very helpful to present customers who’ve some prior expertise however have encountered sensible issues associated to check parameters, pattern preparation or knowledge interpretation.
The variety of individuals is restricted to 16.
Charges and registration
Registration may be carried out via this kind.
Goals
Perceive the fundamentals of instrumented indentation testing and its use in relation to standard indentation methods.
Design and carry out indentation experiments that are suited to the pattern materials and its floor traits.
Acknowledge uncommon materials behaviors and perceive adapt experimental parameters.
Interpret indentation knowledge with the intention to extract significant and legitimate values of mechanical properties with excessive degree of confidence.
Determine potential measurement artifacts and adapt take a look at parameters accordingly.
Perceive measurement uncertainties and decrease them.
Recognize the variation of floor mechanical properties as a operate of depth or spatial distribution and perceive deal with particular layers, phases or inclusions in a heterogeneous materials.
Means to interpret related functions and case research, comparable to: widespread coating-substrate combos, multiphase supplies, composites, surface-modified layers, and Micro Electro Mechanical Techniques (MEMS) gadgets.
Acknowledge at present relevant industrial requirements and have the ability to adapt such take a look at methodologies to personal particular software.
This course could also be validated for 1 ECTS credit score within the doctoral packages of EPFL and ETH Zurich after acceptance by the corresponding establishment. The credit score shall be attributed to college students who cross the examination held on the ultimate day of the course.
Subjects
Introduction, together with primary indentation idea
Primary experimental
Superior experimental
Analysis strategies
Functions of instrumented indentation
Comparability of methods
Overview of commercial requirements
Testing of coatings
Lecturers
Dr. Andy Bushby (Queen Mary College of London) and Dr. Nicholas Randall (Alemnis).
