Nanoindentation mapping of mechanical properties of cement paste and natural rocks

By Wenzhong Zhu, J. Hughes, N. Bićanić, Chris J. Pearce. 2007

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Microstructure, hydration and nanomechanical properties of concrete containing metakaolin (2015, result): “These values are slightly higher than the reported values by other researchers [43,44].”
Critical aspects of nano-indentation technique in application to hardened cement paste (2011, background): “Indentation depths ranging between 100 and 200 nm are usually considered to be representative of both phases [2,3,5–11].”
Application of nanoindentation technology in rocks: a review (2020, background): “…(Goldsby et al. 2004; Broz et al. 2006; Thom et al. 2018; Sahoo et al. 2017), halite (Thom and Goldsby 2019), natural quartzite and granodiorite (Zhu et al. 2007), etc. (Mikowski et al. 2008; Ashraf et al. 2015; Hansen et al. 2020; Whitney et al. 2007; Deng 2017; Qiu 2019; Beirau et al. 2016).”
Micromechanical investigation of Portland cement paste (2014, unknown): “[48] HD 31.”
A review on the mechanical properties of cement-based materials measured by nanoindentation (2015, methodology): “Grid nanoindentation technique can be used to map the mechanical properties [5,21,22,26,27,74,110] and produce the dataset for statistical analysis [9,92].”
Properties of interfacial transition zones (ITZs) in concrete containing recycled mixed aggregate (2017, background): “The elastic recovery of the deformed material results in a reduction of the penetration depth [27, 28].”