Karimzadeh, Atefeh and Koloor, Seyed Saeid Rahimian and Ayatollahi, Majid Reza and Bushroa, Abdul Razak and Yahya, Mohd Yazid (2019) Assessment of Nano-Indentation Method in Mechanical Characterization of Heterogeneous Nanocomposite Materials Using Experimental and Computational Approaches. Scientific Reports, 9 (1). p. 15763. ISSN 2045-2322, DOI https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-51904-4.
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This study investigates the capacity of the nano-indentation method in the mechanical characterization of a heterogeneous dental restorative nanocomposite using experimental and computational approaches. In this respect, Filtek Z350 XT was selected as a nano-particle reinforced polymer nanocomposite with a specific range of the particle size (50 nm to 4 µm), within the range of indenter contact area of the nano-indentation experiment. A Sufficient number of nano-indentation tests were performed in various locations of the nanocomposite to extract the hardness and elastic modulus properties. A hybrid computational-experimental approach was developed to examine the extracted properties by linking the internal behaviour and the global response of the nanocomposite. In the computational part, several representative models of the nanocomposite were created in a finite element environment to simulate the mechanism of elastic-plastic deformation of the nanocomposite under Berkovich indenter. Dispersed values of hardness and elastic modulus were obtained through the experiment with 26.8 and 48.5 percent average errors, respectively, in comparison to the nanocomposite properties, respectively. A disordered shape was predicted for plastic deformation of the equilateral indentation mark, representing the interaction of the particles and matrix, which caused the experiment results reflect the local behaviour of the nanocomposite instead of the real material properties. © 2019, The Author(s).
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia with grant number of FRGS–R.J130000.7851.5F082, Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia for providing a grant: FP058-2016, University of Malaya: PG 240-2015A, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic and the European Union (European Structural and Investment Funds– Operational Programme Research, Development and Education), Iran’s National Elites Foundation (BMN) through Iran University of Science and Technology (Research Project No. 160/16334) |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Indentation; Nanoindentation; Spherical indentation |
| Subjects: | T Technology > TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Engineering |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Apr 2020 06:14 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Apr 2020 06:14 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/24198 |
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