George M. Pharr

Research.com Recognitions

• 2018 - Nadai Medal, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
• 2014 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For development of methods for determining mechanical properties of materials by nanoindentation.
• 2012 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society
• 2010 - Innovation in Materials Characterization Award, Materials Research Society For seminal contributions to the development of the instrumentation and analysis methods of nanoindentation for characterizing the mechanical properties of materials at the micrometer- and nanometer-length scales. Their work on nanoindentation has profoundly impacted all fields of materials research where mechanical behavior is important.

Overview

Best Publications

• An improved technique for determining hardness and elastic modulus using load and displacement sensing indentation experiments

  W.C. Oliver;G.M. Pharr

  32667
  Citations

• Measurement of hardness and elastic modulus by instrumented indentation: Advances in understanding and refinements to methodology

  W.C. Oliver;G.M. Pharr

  9784
  Citations

• On the generality of the relationship among contact stiffness, contact area, and elastic modulus during indentation

  George M. Pharr;Warren C. Oliver;F.R. Brotzen

  2068
  Citations

• Temperature dependence of the mechanical properties of equiatomic solid solution alloys with face-centered cubic crystal structures

  Zhenggang Wu;Hongbin Bei;George M. Pharr;George M. Pharr;Easo P. George;Easo P. George

  2012
  Citations

• Influences of pileup on the measurement of mechanical properties by load and depth sensing indentation techniques

  A. Bolshakov;G. M. Pharr

  1395
  Citations

• Measurement of mechanical properties by ultra-low load indentation

  G.M. Pharr

  1382
  Citations

• Direct Observation and Analysis of Indentation Cracking in Glasses and Ceramics

  Robert F. Cook;George M. Pharr

  1351
  Citations

• Measurement of thin film mechanical properties using nanoindentation

  G.M. Pharr;W.C. Oliver

  1249
  Citations

• Elastic properties of human cortical and trabecular lamellar bone measured by nanoindentation

  Jae Young Rho;Ting Y. Tsui;George M. Pharr

  1163
  Citations

• The correlation of the indentation size effect measured with indenters of various shapes

  J.G. Swadener;J.G. Swadener;E.P. George;G.M. Pharr;G.M. Pharr

  935
  Citations

• Recovery, recrystallization, grain growth and phase stability of a family of FCC-structured multi-component equiatomic solid solution alloys

  Z. Wu;H. Bei;F. Otto;F. Otto;G.M. Pharr;G.M. Pharr

  915
  Citations

• The Indentation Size Effect: A Critical Examination of Experimental Observations and Mechanistic Interpretations

  George M. Pharr;Erik G. Herbert;Yanfei Gao

  809
  Citations

• Influences of stress on the measurement of mechanical properties using nanoindentation: Part I. Experimental studies in an aluminum alloy

  T. Y. Tsui;W. C. Oliver;G. M. Pharr

  758
  Citations

• The elastic properties of trabecular and cortical bone tissues are similar: results from two microscopic measurement techniques.

  Charles H. Turner;Jae Rho;Yuichi Takano;Ting Y. Tsui

  728
  Citations

• On the measurement of stress–strain curves by spherical indentation

  E.G Herbert;E.G Herbert;G.M Pharr;W.C Oliver;B.N Lucas

  674
  Citations

• Influences of stress on the measurement of mechanical properties using nanoindentation: Part II. Finite element simulations

  A. Bolshakov;W. C. Oliver;G. M. Pharr

  633
  Citations

• Understanding nanoindentation unloading curves

  G. M. Pharr;A. Bolshakov

  594
  Citations

• A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE FUNDAMENTAL RELATIONS USED IN THE ANALYSIS OF NANOINDENTATION DATA

  Jack C. Hay;A. Bolshakov;G. M. Pharr

  582
  Citations

• Nanoindentation and nanoscratching of hard carbon coatings for magnetic disks

  T. Y. Tsui;G. M. Pharr;W. C. Oliver;C. S. Bhatia

  509
  Citations

• The evolution of the deformation substructure in a Ni-Co-Cr equiatomic solid solution alloy

  J. Miao;C.E. Slone;T.M. Smith;C. Niu

  503
  Citations

• Substrate effects on nanoindentation mechanical property measurement of soft films on hard substrates

  T. Y. Tsui;G. M. Pharr

  460
  Citations