Developed by the authors new methodology of processing and analysis of material automatic indentation results is submitted. Physically proved and experimentally confirmed equation of an indentation, which establishes connection between mechanical properties of materials (including their limiting values) and parameters of automatically written down indentation diagram is a basis of the methodology. Its use allows receiving practically full picture of mechanical properties and structural state of new modern materials with any phase composition in any structural state of samples with very small sizes.

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