压痕法测定热压MoSi2基复合材料K1C值的研究

用不同的压痕方程计算了纳米ＺｒＯ２粒子韧化ＭｏＳｉ２基复合材料的室温断裂韧性Ｋ１ｃ值，同时研究了压痕载荷对Ｋ１ｃ值的影响。结果表明，试验材料在试验条件下的断裂韧性不遵从半月状裂纹系统方程，而遵从巴氏裂纹系统方程，其室温压痕断裂韧性保持与压痕载荷的独立性。     

周期阵列压痕奇异应力场与开裂（PartⅡ：压痕开裂临界载荷）

周期阵列压痕方法是研究微观摩擦学的工具之一。由于周期阵列刚性压头压在半平面弹性体的表面时,会产生周期的Ⅰ型奇异压应力场,该奇异应力场的应力集中达到一定程度时,即达到临界条件时,该奇异应力场所在的边界将开裂。压痕边界的开裂问题是一个新型的断裂力学问题,通过边界移动的能量释放率的分析给出了压痕边界开裂能量释放率数学表征,并给出边界开裂的临界载荷和临界开裂角。     

基于图像处理的自动聚焦技术及应用

自动聚焦技术是提高压痕直径测量系统测量精度、智能化和自动化的重要手段.介绍了采用图像处理法实现压痕直径测量系统的自动聚焦技术,核心就是选择一个合适的图像清晰度评价函数.在研究了众多图像清晰度评价函数的基础上,提出了基于向量模型和改进DCT变换的图像清晰度评价函数,实验表明,提出的算法具有良好的单峰性、准确性、稳定性、可靠性和快速性.最后通过基于COM组件技术的Matlab与VB混合编程来保证算法实现和软件设计.     

人工水晶的压痕断裂行为及其 K_(1c)测量

藉助于声发射技术,研究了在 Vickers 钻石压头作用下人工水晶的压痕断裂行为。压头对角线与晶体试样的相对取向是,使得水晶Ⅰ和水晶Ⅱ的压痕诱发径向/中位断裂,分别沿着(10(?)0)/(1(?)10)和(11(?)0/(1(?)00)晶面对发展。压痕断裂过程中的声发射特征表明,除了随着压痕特征参数的发展所引起的准静态—声发射外,有三个相互独立的,与径向/中位裂纹的成核、径向/中位裂纹突入试样表面、以及裂纹分岔或侧向裂纹萌生等过程相关的声发射效应。以 Vickers 压痕技术测得 K_(c2)的结果与以一般力学法及 Knoop 压痕技术的测试结果作了比较。断裂韧性与晶体学取向的关系亦作了分析。实验表明,水晶Ⅰ和水晶Ⅱ具有相同的 K_(1c)值。其原因是,两种试样的径向/中位裂纹实际上沿着同样的{1100}/{1120}晶面对扩展。至于从缺口梁法或 Knoop 压痕技术得到的 K_(1c)值,由于水晶Ⅰ和水晶Ⅱ的主裂纹分别沿着(1(?)10)和(1(?)00)晶面扩展;它们的 K_(1c)值与断裂能随着晶体学取向而变有关,因而也就各不相同。     

基于图像分割技术的压痕直径图像测量

在分析布氏硬度试验压痕图像基础上,提出基于属性直方图的图像分割算法.利用工业CCD相机获取压痕图像,通过图像分割、目标区域处理、压痕圆拟合等步骤完成图像处理,由此实现对压痕尺寸的自动精确测量.实验证明,该算法满足布氏硬度试验对压痕直径的测量要求.     

Advanced methods for mechanical and structural characterization of nanoscale materials for 3D IC integration

Managing the emerging internal mechanical stress in chips, particularly if they are 3D stacked, is a key task to maintain performance and reliability of microelectronic products. Hence, a strong need of a physics-based simulation methodology emerges. This physics-based simulation, however, requires material parameters with high accuracy. A full-chip analysis can then be performed, balancing the need for local resolution and computing time. The key for an efficient simulation of a 3D stacked IC is a comprehensive database with material properties for multiple scales of the affected materials. Therefore, effective “composite-type” material data for several regions of interest are needed. Advanced techniques to measure FEA- and design-relevant properties such as adhesion properties and effective CTE values are presented.     

Fabrication and analysis of cylindrical resin AFM microcantilevers

In this paper a new method of fabricating cylindrical resin microcantilevers using the Direct Digital Manufacturing (DDM) technique of Micro-stereolithography (MSL) is described. The method is rapid and commercially viable, allowing the fabrication of atomic force microscope (AFM) cantilevers which exhibit much larger spring constants than those currently commercial available. This allows for experimentation in a force regime orders of magnitude higher than currently possible using the AFM. This makes these cantilevers ideally suited for AFM-based depth sensing indentation. Due to their geometry, the assumptions used in the standard Euler-Bernoulli beam theory usually used to analyse AFM cantilevers may no longer be valid. Therefore approximate analytical solutions based on Timoshenko beam theory have been derived for the stiffness and resonant frequency of these cantilevers. Prototypes of the cantilevers have been fabricated and tested. Results show good agreement between experiment and theory.     

Mechanical behavior of Ce0.9Gd0.1O1.95-La0.6Sr0.4Co0.2Fe0.8O3−δ oxygen electrode with a coral microstructure for solid oxide fuel cell and solid oxide electrolyzer cell

The objective of this work is to investigate the mechanical behavior of CGO-LSCF composite developed by electrostatic spray deposition as an oxygen electrode for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell and Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell. The coating is characterized by a highly porous morphology designated coral microstructure. Its mechanical behavior was studied by scratch and ultramicroindentation tests and a model of material degradation under progressive compressive loading has been proposed. The coral's damage mechanism involves three regimes: at very low loads stresses are concentrated at the tips of individual corals that fracture and fill the spaces between corals (regime I); as load increases, generalized fracture of the corals occurs and the material starts compacting into an increasingly dense layer (regime II); finally, at the highest loads, the material behaves like an almost fully dense (regime III). As load increases during testing porosity decreases from about 60 to about 5 vol% in the compacted material. The transitions between regimes are associated to increases in the contact stress and the same damage mechanism is found during scratching and indentation. Hardness increases from about 2–100 MPa, while the Young's modulus varies in the range 1–18 GPa, as the porosity decreases. Calculations of the real contact pressure during loading allowed estimating a yield stress of 83 MPa that can be considered as a low limit for the materials fracture strength.     

Classification of ceramics and glass (edge chipping and fracture toughness)

The standard classification of advanced ceramics is based on their strength, although in many cases the performance of products made of such materials is controlled by their deformation behavior and fracture resistance. In this article, ceramics and glass are classified according to their edge chipping resistance (EF-method). Such a classification is based on the idea of a baseline (direct proportionality between edge chipping resistance and fracture toughness of ceramics that are similar to the model material of linear elastic fracture mechanics). Use was made of various elastic and inelastic, oxide and non-oxide ordinary ceramics, composite ceramics capable and incapable of retarding cracks and intended for engineering and biomedical applications. Attention is also given to silicate glass.