... discontinuity in the load-displacementcurve in a nanoindentation experiment [4, 8, 11, 26, 27, 35]. The onset of the discontinuity is10 Nanoindentation in Materials Science First-Principles ... by the Goodwin-Needs-Heine local pseudo-potential [9]. The high kinetic12 Nanoindentation in Materials Science 14 Nanoindentation d = 3.0, 6.0, 7.5 Å, the random results are obtained after full ... analyzed indentation experiments using the blunt indenter and the corresponding FEA-simulated elastic deformation curves using the AFM-measured indenter. The dotted lines indicate the major pop-in...