“…To determine the elastoplastic properties of materials from a spherical indentation test, different approaches can be used depending on whether the F-h curve or the imprint is used [2] [3] . In almost all the proposed methods, the behaviour law is assumed to be isotropic and an isotropic strain hardening law with less than four unknown parameters is chosen in order to "theoretically" guarantee the uniqueness of the solution [2] [3] [ [15][16][17][18] [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35]. In the case where the behaviour law of the indented material is anisotropic, the use of a single indentation curve is not sufficient to determine all the many parameters of this law.…”