This widespread course, organized in partnership with Alemnis and Queen Mary College of London, will happen on the Discovery Studying Lab (DLL), EPFL.
Who ought to attend
This course is meant for present nanoindentation customers who wish to acquire the expertise and information required to extract helpful knowledge from difficult pattern supplies and in addition for customers of typical indentation strategies (Vickers, Rockwell, Knoop, and so on.) who’re considering of including instrumented indentation to their portfolio of sensible check strategies. The course is also very helpful to present customers who’ve some prior expertise however have encountered sensible issues associated to check parameters, pattern preparation or knowledge interpretation.
The variety of individuals is restricted to 16.
Charges and registration
Registration could be carried out by means of this way.
Goals
- Perceive the fundamentals of instrumented indentation testing and its use in relation to traditional indentation strategies.
- Design and carry out indentation experiments that are suited to the pattern materials and its floor traits.
- Acknowledge uncommon materials behaviors and perceive the best way to adapt experimental parameters.
- Interpret indentation knowledge in an effort to extract significant and legitimate values of mechanical properties with excessive degree of confidence.
- Determine potential measurement artifacts and adapt check parameters accordingly.
- Perceive measurement uncertainties and the best way to reduce them.
- Recognize the variation of floor mechanical properties as a perform of depth or spatial distribution and perceive the best way to deal with particular layers, phases or inclusions in a heterogeneous materials.
- Potential to interpret related functions and case research, similar to: widespread coating-substrate combos, multiphase supplies, composites, surface-modified layers, and Micro Electro Mechanical Methods (MEMS) gadgets.
- Acknowledge at present relevant industrial requirements and have the ability to adapt such check methodologies to personal particular utility.
This course could also be validated for 1 ECTS credit score within the doctoral packages of EPFL and ETH Zurich after acceptance by the corresponding establishment. The credit score shall be attributed to college students who go the examination held on the ultimate day of the course.
Subjects
- Introduction, together with fundamental indentation idea
- Primary experimental
- Superior experimental
- Analysis strategies
- Functions of instrumented indentation
- Comparability of strategies
- Overview of business requirements
- Testing of coatings
Lecturers
Dr. Andy Bushby (Queen Mary College of London) and Dr. Nicholas Randall (Alemnis).
