| Abstract Scope |
With the recent advances in force & displacement sensing technology and instrumentation, micromechanical testing has become a powerful tool to investigate mechanical behavior at the small scale. Micromechanics, originally focused on the testing of small-scale materials, is finding a wider range of applications in probing bulk materials’ mechanical behavior.
Additively manufactured materials and structures exhibit complicated microstructures, including heterogeneities, anisotropic features, interfaces, and gradients. The length scales of these vary from micro- to nanoscale, rendering micromechanical testing an excellent tool to probe the associated mechanical behavior.
In this talk, I will give an overview of our recent work and the progress in the micromechanics community that enables effective characterization of the mechanical properties at the small scale, and I will discuss the implications of these advancements for additive manufacturing research. |