Measuring material hardness enables to evaluate heat treatment conformity to requrements. For some materials, it is also possible to evaluate material tensile strenght through hardness measurement results.
Brinell hardness is mainly used for determine hardness of soft and medium hardness steels. Vickers hardness is used for welds and Rockwell hardness for tempered steel and aluminum alloys.
- Vickers scale HV 0,01 … HV 30.
- Brinell load 1 kgf … 3000 kgf, ball dimensions 1; 2,5; 5 and 10 mm.
- Rockwell scales HRA, HRB, HRC. Additional loads 15 kgf, 30 kgf and 45 kgf.
For all methods suitable sample shape, thickness and surface finish is required to carry out hardness measurement. For more information please contact us through order form.
Hardness measurement methods:
- Brinell hardness EN-ISO 6506-1
- Vickers hardness EN-ISO 6507-1
- Rockwell hardness EN-ISO 6508-1
- Universal hardness (instrumented indentation test) EN-ISO 14577