Indentation Curves in Viscoplastic Alloys: Mathematical Model, Fitting Procedures, and Application to the Room-Temperature Creep of an Al-Sn Alloy

Table 2

Average data and standard deviations for the fitting parameters in the viscoplastic case before and after data correction. , with being the time-independent hardness.

	Raw data			Corrected data
	(Pa)			(Pa)
Mean	1.22 × 10^10	3.47 × 10^−6	0.45	1.28 × 10^10	2.65 × 10^−6	0.47
St. Dev.	1.4 × 10^9	1.1 × 10^−6	0.03	1.3 × 10^9	9.4 × 10^−7	0.03