Small Punch Test - assessment of the possibilities of the methodology and its limitations

The Bachelor’s thesis is aimed to sum up and consider actual state of knowledge about a relatively new method used for testing materials called Small Punch Test. There are pros and cons of the method with troubles at the application process stated in the thesis. We can read something about the basic idea of small punch testing. A big effort was spent to sort many types of tests according to used configurations of testing machines and another testing parameters. There are stated techniques used for determination some basic material properties from small punch testing also with methods of correlation to results obtained from standard material tests in the thesis