Mechanical property indentation tester

所要求的压痕系统将提供一个独特的测试平台，这将是唯一一个直接测量先进材料的硬度、刚度和磨损性能的系统，并允许这些特性在组件上进行空间映射。提供的新功能将有助于首次在精细尺度上同时测量这些不同的性质，并开辟有关微观结构-性质相关性的新研究领域。这将支持申请人和共同申请人的一些研究项目，涉及新型纳米结构复合材料、轻质合金和汽车应用的高强度材料。如果没有这种设备，这些特性就不能在一个样品上直接相互关联，也不能在加工过的商业部件的不同区域进行比较。这将支持先进材料在汽车、航空航天、微电子和能源行业的应用。对于这些先进材料中各种机械性能之间的相互关系，将获得许多新的见解，并且通过大幅减少表征时间，研究将大大加快。拟议中的系统将在安大略省是独一无二的，并刺激与工业和其他研究机构的新互动。

The requested indentation system will provide a unique testing platform that will be the only system to directly measure the measurement of hardness, stiffness, and wear performance of advanced materials, and allow these properties of to be spatially mapped across a component. The new capabilities offered will facilitate measuring these various properties simultaneously for the first time on a fine scale, and open new areas of research regarding microstructure-property correlation. This will support a number of research programs by the applicant and co-applicant involving novel nanostructured composites, light weight alloys, and high strength materials for automotive applications. Without this equipment, these properties can not be correlated to each other directly on one specimen, or compared in different regions of a processed commercial component. This will support the implementation of advanced materials in the automotive, aerospace, microelectronics, and energy industries. A number of new insights will be gained into the inter-relationships between various mechanical properties in these advanced materials, and research will be greatly accelerated by drastically reducing the characterization time. The proposed system will be unique in Ontario, and stimulate new interactions with industry as well as other research institutions.