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The present study focuses on the effects of surface orientation on the peculiarities of the earliest stages of nanoindentation-induced plasticity in sapphire (Al2O3) single crystal surfaces. The previous theoretical analyses do not account for all the experimentally observed trends. Additional considerations are required to bridge the gap between experimental results and theoretical predictions. Of key importance are accounting for the sense of twinning shear, the multiplicity of slip and twinning systems involved and an appropriate criterion for the transition from elastic to elastic-plastic regime. The present study supplements a continuum-based stress analysis with the above considerations and compares the resulting theoretical predictions with the experimental results for basal [C, (0001)], rhombohedral [R,(1102)] and prism [A,(1210) and M,(1010)] surfaces. Surface patterns of slip and twining are scrutinized in Part I. Previously unexplained features justified by the results obtained by the present a... |
