A Way out of World-Wide Indentation Dichotomy in Materials’ Science

This Short Review describes the world-wide dichotomy at the publication of mechanical materials’ properties from pointed indentations, which is the most simple, rapid, and cheapest technique for obtaining these values. The dichotomy occurs when Materials’ Scientists knowingly publish with “one hand” correct force versus correct h3/2 curves and with the “other hand” ISO-ASTM-14577 enforced mechanical parameters that violate the energy-law and iterate unphysical force versus h2 values relative values with 3 + 8 free parameters. That even though all analyses of worldwide loading curves follow exponent 3/2. They thus oppose against correct algebraic calculations. Only these reveal phase-transition onsets and mostly endothermic transition energies. These can be frozen out by indentations in liquid nitrogen where unexpectedly exothermic phase-transitions come to the fore by indentation. As negative polymorph energy content is thermodynamically poorly understood, an exciting epochal new field of research is opened.

The correct physical calculations do not violate the energy law and detect as bargain the very often found phase-transition onsets and even the transformation energies. These are of utmost importance for the optimization of technical materials. Unsuitable test materials with twinning and structural transitions transfer their errors and transitions to the fitted materials, erasing their own sharp phase-transitions. These must be known, as their onset force must never be surmounted upon technical application. It is reminded that phase-transitions form polymorph interfaces with stable micro-cracks. These are the nucleation sites for catastrophic crashes upon further increased forces. That has been microscopically imaged together with the written warning from the “new crashing mechanism”. But the publication of this imaged series (including the crashing) and written warning from it was blocked by Dichotomist Reviewers and Editors for years. It could have appeared in print by Crystals, timely before the three fatal crashings of airliners in short sequence, so that all of them could have been avoided. Clearly, the Dichotomist Editor from that journal is fully responsible for all three crashings, as he additionally used quacking for the rejection. Thus, the open access publication of our very clear paper in the third of the asked journals could only appear after the fatal crashings. This appearance of the present author’s publication led to a surprisingly fast reaction of FAA. It takes one six-month period for checking all operating airliners, and half a year after the appearance of my microscopic images, FAA grounded all 250 airliners for 18 months that had such (previously security-check passing) micro-cracks at their pickle-forks. FAA would have had their chance and would certainly have equally rapidly grounded, well before the three tragic crashings. The dichotomy led to these catastrophes with announcement. It reveals the enormous risk of the dichotomy. The responsibility for the three fatal airliner crashings is clear. And ISO-ASTM with the certification agencies for industries must after all follow my petitions for correcting their 14577 standard, so that the scientific dichotomy will be urgently removed for the well-being of mankind.

A face saving way to the goal of removing the worldwide shameful scientific dichotomy from both side parties is the proposed convention for an absolute instruments’ standard and slogan: We need now absolute mechanical properties!

Keywords: Dichotomy; Pointed Indentations; Energy Conservation Law; Phase-Transition; Twinning; Liquid Nitrogen Effect; Crashing Prevention; Absolute Mechanical Parameters