Nowadays, instrumented indentation is routinely used in quality control as well as in many different areas of industrial and academic research. This technique is generally known as nanoindentation ...

As another practical example, Plexiglas or PMMA is a shatterproof transparent plastic, and does not crack on indentation when a sample is tested in factory-fresh condition, unlike the above sample of ...

Newly developed high-entropy alloys (HEA), which are useful for high-temperature applications, show superior mechanical properties at elevated temperatures when compared to conventional superalloys or ...