NIMS Matlab toolbox¶
The NIMS toolbox has been developed to plot and analyze (nano)indentation data obtained with conical indenters for bulk materials and multilayer samples.
With this Matlab toolbox, it is possible to:
plot and correct nanoindentation datasets with standard deviations;
calculate the coefficient of the power-law fit to the load-displacement curve;
calculate the loading energy (the area under the load-displacement curve);
plot the evolution of stiffness and load/stiffness squared;
calculate the Young’s modulus and hardness of bulk materials;
calculate the Young’s modulus and hardness of thin films on a substrate, for bilayer or multilayer samples (up to three layers on a substrate);
generate a Python script for an axisymmetric FEM model in ABAQUS (conical-spherical indentation of a multilayer sample).
Source code is hosted on GitHub.
Download the source code as a ZIP file.
Download the documentation as a PDF file.
Figure 1 Screenshot of the main window of the NIMS toolbox.¶
Contents¶
- Getting started
- Configuration
- Models for bulk material
- Nanoindentation tests on bulk material
- Dynamic nanoindentation
- Extraction of elastic properties
- Extraction of viscoelastic properties
- Extraction of plastic properties
- Energy approach
- Indentation recovery index
- Methodology to extract properties without the function area
- Methodology to minimize displacement measurement uncertainties using dynamic nanoindentation testing
- Indentation Size Effect
- References
- Models for thin films
- Nanoindentation tests on thin films
- Elastic properties of a thin film on a substrate
- Bückle (1961)
- Doerner and Nix (1986)
- Gao et al. (1992)
- Menčík et al. (1997)
- Menčík et al. (linear model) (1997)
- Menčík et al. (exponential model) (1997)
- Menčík et al. (reciprocal exponential model) (1997)
- Perriot et al. (2003)
- Jung et al. (2004)
- Bec et al. (2006)
- Korsunsky and Constantinescu (2009)
- Hay et al. (2011)
- Bull (2014)
- Argatov I.I. and Sabina F.J. (2016)
- Elastic properties of a thin film on a multilayer system
- Plastic properties of a thin film on a substrate
- Plastic properties of a thin film on a multilayer system
- References
- Minimization process
- Examples of nanoindentation data
- FEM model
- Links and References
- Links
- Other Matlab toolboxes for indentation
- Links about (nano)indentation
- References
- (Nano)Indentation models (conical indenters)
- Correction factors and Correction of experimental data
- Bilayer models to extract Young’s modulus of a thin film on a substrate (with conical indenters)
- Multilayer models to extract Young’s moduli of thin films on a multilayer sample (with conical indenters)
- Bilayer models to extract hardness of a thin film on a substrate (with conical indenters)
- Multilayer models to extract hardness of thin films on a multilayer sample (with conical indenters)
- Finite Element Modelling of conical indentation of thin film(s) on a substrate
- Software
- Reviews and overviews of nanoindentation techniques
- Reviews and overviews of nanoindentation applied to coatings
- Books
Contact¶
- Author:
David Mercier [1,2,3]
[1] CEA, 17 Avenue des Martyrs, 38000 Grenoble, France
[2] Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, 40237 Düsseldorf, Germany
[3] CRM Group, Avenue du Bois Saint-Jean 21, B27 – Quartier Polytech 4, 4000 Liège, Belgium
Acknowledgements¶
The author is grateful to Dr. V. Mandrillon from (CEA, France (Grenoble)) and Dr. M. Verdier from (SIMaP, France (Grenoble)) for many fruitful discussions about nanoindentation.
The author is grateful to Dr. Igor Zlotnikov (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany (Potsdam)), for providing example files.
Keywords¶
Matlab toolbox ; nanoindentation ; conical indenter ; Young’s modulus ; hardness ; thin film ; multilayer system ; analytical model ; python script ; finite element modelling.