“…However, it’s difficult to use the conventional mechanical testing techniques, such as uniaxial tension-compression 4 , bend 5 and torsion 6 tests, to measure the mechanical properties of the constituent phase in a duplex stainless steel. Due to the simple operation, nanoindentation test has been widely used to characterize the local mechanical properties, such as elastic modulus and hardness 7 – 11 , and local deformation behaviors of materials at micro/nano-scale, such as the load-displacement curve 12 , the viscous-elastic-plastic behavior 13 . By the nanoindentation tests performed onto the constituent phases in austenitic-ferritic duplex stainless steels, the elastic modulus and hardness of ferrite phase are greater than those of austenite phase 14 , 15 .…”