Nowadays, instrumented indentation is routinely used in quality control as well as in many different areas of industrial and academic research. This technique is generally known as nanoindentation ...

Nanoindentation is a type of mechanical indentation testing that is performed on small areas. Indentation is one of the most frequent methods for determining a material's mechanical characteristics.

Three samples of shale rock, two from the Eagle Ford play and one from the Haynesville play, were successfully tested by instrumented indentation using a Nano Indenter G200 from KLA. Results were ...