Abstract Necking is a very common phenomenon in uniaxial tensile experiments. It particularly prominent materials with high-stress levels. can be considered deformation destabilization or localized concentration of deformation. The occurrence this lead to the failure stress-strain curve material. Therefore, paper will examine problem correction tension for high levels yield stress. Due class ma...

 There are increasing demands for measuring mechanical properties of small volumes of metal or smallsized materials used for Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS). This is basically because such mechanical properties are closely related to the strength and reliability of the metal or systems. In this work, a nanoindentation technique with a spherical-tip is applied to the evaluation of elast...

We measured pressure-volume curves in nine excised dog ventricles and stress-strain curves in two to five muscle specimens from each ventricle to verify a derived formula that relates muscle stiffness to the ventricular pressure-volume curve. The assumptions underlying this formula are: (1) the ventricle is a uniform spherical shell, (2) all muscle fibers carry average stress and deform as if t...

In the present article, a new method for the determination of the hardening law using the load displacement curve, F–h, of a spherical indentation test is developed. This method is based on the study of the error between an experimental indentation curve and a number of finite elements simulation curves. For the smaller values of these errors, the error distribution shape is a valley, which is ...