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Review: the microhardness of non-crystalline materials

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Hardness is defined as a phenomenological measure of resistance of a material to shear stresses under local volume compression. It is shown that this definition may serve as a theoretical basis for existing empirical relationships between the Vickers microhardness H V and the various phenomenological, packing density-sensitive parameters of non-crystalline materials, including among them, the internal pressure, the glass transition temperature T g, the excess enthalpy, and the free volume fraction at T g.

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  1. CSIC, Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, Serrano 119, 28006, Madrid, Spain

    F. J. Baltá Calleja

  2. Buryat State University, Smolina 24a, 670000, Ulan-Ude, Russia

    D. S. Sanditov

  3. Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv Chaussee 48, 02160, Kyiv, Ukraine

    V. P. Privalko

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Calleja, F.J.B., Sanditov, D.S. & Privalko, V.P. Review: the microhardness of non-crystalline materials. Journal of Materials Science 37, 4507–4516 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020648908142

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