Niget: NanoIndentation
General Evaluation Tool

Contents:

• 1 About
• 2 System requirements, compiling, and installation
  • 2.1 Linux
  • 2.2 Windows
    • 2.2.1 Microsoft Visual Studio
    • 2.2.2 MinGW suite
• 3 Main Window
• 4 Data & area
  • 4.1 Window
  • 4.2 Maximum depth and force
  • 4.3 Area function
• 5 Oliver Pharr
  • 5.1 Window
  • 5.2 Procedure
• 6 Oliver Pharr with ODR
  • 6.1 Window
  • 6.2 Procedure
• 7 Tangent method
  • 7.1 Window
  • 7.2 Procedure
• 8 Hertz method
  • 8.1 Window
  • 8.2 Procedure
• 9 Hertz method with ODR
  • 9.1 Window
  • 9.2 Procedure
• 10 Two slopes method
  • 10.1 Window
  • 10.2 Procedure
• 11 F-h analysis
  • 11.1 Window
  • 11.2 Procedure
• 12 Pop-in detection
  • 12.1 Window
  • 12.2 Procedure
• 13 Elastic/plastic work
  • 13.1 Window
  • 13.2 Procedure
• 14 Uncertainties
  • 14.1 Window
  • 14.2 Gaussian propagation of uncertainties
    • 14.2.1 Uncertainty propagation for Oliver Pharr method with ODR
    • 14.2.2 Uncertainty propagation for Hertz method with ODR
    • 14.2.3 Uncertainty propagation for two slopes method with ODR
  • 14.3 Uncertainty due to choice of contact point
  • 14.4 Monte Carlo calculation of uncertainties
    • 14.4.1 Window
    • 14.4.2 Monte Carlo calculation of uncertainties: Description of method
• References
• A Data fitting
  • A.1 Orthogonal distance regression
  • A.2 Total least squares - Deming fit
  • A.3 Least squares - 3/2 power fit