The indentation size effect (ISE) is a decrease of hardness with increasing indentation load. This effect is observed in most materials, but my experience is only related to glass. Samples indented using the same load are therefore comparable. Though, if you vary the indentation load for one of your samples you will probably find the hardness to decrease when you increase the load.
The indentation size effect (ISE) is a decrease of hardness with increasing indentation load. This effect is observed in most materials, but my experience is only related to glass. Samples indented using the same load are therefore comparable. Though, if you vary the indentation load for one of your samples you will probably find the hardness to decrease when you increase the load.
The indentation size effect (ISE) diminishes with increasing indentation load. Therefore, this effect can be avoided using sufficiently high indentation loads. However, at higher indentation loads brittle materials like ceramics tend to break/chip which avoids a good hardness measurement. Better to use micro-hardness measurement techniques (microscope) than macro-hardness testers