Nano-scale mechanical properties of constituent minerals in shales investigated by combined nanoindentation statistical analyses and SEM-EDS-XRD techniques

Engineering & Materials Science

• Nanoindentation 100%
• Shale 94%
• Energy dispersive spectroscopy 85%
• Minerals 83%
• Scanning electron microscopy 65%
• Mechanical properties 53%
• Biological materials 36%
• Quartz 30%
• Plastics 20%
• Cracks 13%
• Iron 12%
• Elastic moduli 11%
• Kerogen 11%
• Hardness 10%
• Silicates 7%
• Indentation 7%
• Physics 5%
• Rocks 5%
• Chemical analysis 4%
• Testing 3%
• Hot Temperature 3%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• spectroscopy 69%
• mechanical property 68%
• shale 64%
• X-ray diffraction 64%
• scanning electron microscopy 60%
• mineral 45%
• energy 40%
• plastic 21%
• clinochlore 21%
• quartz 19%
• organic matter 18%
• crack 16%
• elastic modulus 15%
• muscovite 14%
• hardness 12%
• iron 9%
• thermal maturity 8%
• matrix 8%
• phyllosilicate 8%
• indentation 7%
• kerogen 7%
• modeling 5%
• physics 5%
• silicate 5%
• engineering 4%
• in situ 4%
• need 3%
• chemical 3%
• rock 3%
• test 2%
• analysis 1%