{"id":111,"date":"2010-01-15T11:05:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T16:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umaine.edu\/first\/?page_id=111"},"modified":"2020-02-19T13:24:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T18:24:30","slug":"nanomechanics-and-tribology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/first\/nanomechanics-and-tribology\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanomechanics and Tribology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Nanotribometer, Hysitron Picoindenter, Surface Profilometer, Pin-on-Disk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-112 size-full\" title=\"Nanomechanics\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/first\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/498\/2010\/01\/nanotriintro.jpg\" alt=\"Nanomechanics diagram\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/first\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/498\/2010\/01\/nanotriintro.jpg 200w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/first\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/498\/2010\/01\/nanotriintro-105x79.jpg 105w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,200px\" \/>Nanomechanics is the study of the mechanical properties of material bodies whose dimensions lie in the nanometer to micrometer scale. Some properties of interest are Young and shear moduli, shear strength, and work of adhesion, and yield strength. Tribology involves the study of friction, wear, and lubrication at sliding contacts.<\/p>\n<p>Instruments at FIRST that can probe mechanical properties of surfaces and films include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>UHV AFM Nano-Indentor<\/strong> &#8211; combined Atomic Force Microscope (AFM), Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM), and Field Ion Microscope (FIM) in one instrument using a well-defined probe tip and atomically clean surfaces.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NanoTribometer Metrology System<\/strong> &#8211; AFM type force detection with a high precision metrology stage to measure forces in the milliNewton range with micrometer sized sliding contacts<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hysitron Picoindenter<\/strong> &#8211; load versus indentation measurements using a Berkowitch diamond probe and capacitive force detection<\/p>\n<p><strong>M5 Scanning Force Microscope<\/strong> \u2013 used to perform single line scratch tests and nanometer scale deformation studies<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-113 size-full alignright\" title=\"new_tribo_2\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/first\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/498\/2010\/01\/new_tribo_2.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Tribology machine\" width=\"250\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/first\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/498\/2010\/01\/new_tribo_2.jpg 250w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/first\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/498\/2010\/01\/new_tribo_2-105x71.jpg 105w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,250px\" \/><strong>Pin-on-Disk Tester<\/strong> &#8211; measurements of friction and wear in circular scratch geometry<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vitrodyne V-1000 microtensile tester<\/strong> &#8211; tensile or compression testing using a 150 gram load cell and 75 mm travel with 1 micron length resolution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alpha-Step Surface Profilometer<\/strong> \u2013 surface roughness measured with a diamond stylus over 500 micrometers with 1 nanometer vertical resolution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nanotribometer, Hysitron Picoindenter, Surface Profilometer, Pin-on-Disk Nanomechanics is the study of the mechanical properties of material bodies whose dimensions lie in the nanometer to micrometer scale. Some properties of interest are Young and shear moduli, shear strength, and work of adhesion, and yield strength. Tribology involves the study of friction, wear, and lubrication at sliding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":478,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-111","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/first\/author\/"},"comment_info":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/478"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1587,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111\/revisions\/1587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/first\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}