Indentation of two-dimensional solids: The signatures of geometrical and material nonlinearity
arXiv:2002.05634 · doi:10.1016/j.jmps.2020.104109
Abstract
The material characterization of ultra-thin solid sheets, including two-dimensional materials like graphene, is often performed through indentation tests on a flake suspended over a hole in a substrate. While this `suspended indentation' is a convenient means of measuring properties such as the stretching (two-dimensional) modulus of such materials, experiments on ostensibly similar systems have reported very different material properties. In this paper, we present a modelling study of this indentation process assuming elastic behaviour. In particular, we investigate the possibility that the reported differences may arise from different geometrical parameters and/or non-Hookean deformations, which lead to the system exploring nonlinearities with geometrical or material origins.
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