Additive manufacturing (AM) is a rapidly growing domain where metallic powder is often used as a precursor for creating of components with complex shapes. Mechanical properties of the new components and parts depend on the build process but also on the properties of the original powder material. Since the powder particles usually have dimensions in tens of micrometers, nanoindentation is one of the few suitable techniques for characterization of their mechanical properties.
This application report shows the use of the nanoindentation technique for measuring of powder particles by compression and also for spherical indentation to obtain their stress-strain properties.
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