With its latest ZHU-topLine hardness tester, Zwick is strengthening its market lead as a supplier of premium universal hardness testing equipment. The first fully functioning prototypes was showcased ...

• Engineers can use hardness testing to verify the composition or heat-treatment history of materials. • Rockwell, Brinell, Vickers, and Shore are common hardness tests. Their use depends on the ...

Inspection of manufactured goods has increasingly become standard practice to ensure products meet more and more demanding specifications. In some cases, this can mean that long established methods of ...

Nanoindentation of metallic samples is closely related to hardness testing methods such as Vickers. The Vickers hardness test requires an imaging method to determine the size of the indentation cup.

Case hardening is a procedure that is generally used for hardening cast irons, steels and other ferrous materials in such a way that the surface layer is significantly harder than the rest of the ...

ALTHOUGH the hardness of a substance is not a physical constant, and cannot be expressed as a function of known physical constants, the idea of hardness is a familiar one, and empirical determinations ...