Heat treatment is an essential technique for influencing workpiece characteristics. Several industries focus on reliable part design to avoid breaking parts, e.g. by decreasing material weight and ...

AZoM talks to Richard Wismer, Sales Manager of Newage Testing Instruments, about the new MT91 Microhardness Testing System. Could you please provide a brief introduction to Newage hardness testing?

• 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 ...

The medical device and electronics industries manufacture products that are fundamentally different from ordinary hard goods. These high-technology products with critical end-use applications tend to ...

AURORA, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mitutoyo America Corporation is pleased to announce the release of the HR-600 Hardness Tester into its line of precision measuring instruments. The HR-600 Series ...

A new method to determine yield strength based on hardness could be used in storage facility pipes with results more conservative than outlined in CFR Title 49 Part 195.106. Based on presentation to ...

Suggested Citation: "3 Current State of Single-Event Effects Hardness Assurance and Infrastructure." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Testing at the Speed of Light: The ...

When designing metal parts, it's important to specify their hardness. However, many engineers have only a shaky understanding of what hardness actually is, or how it's measured. There are good reasons ...

Engineers rely on facts to make decisions. These materials engineering students, in their MEE-312-L lab, measure the hardness of a bacon-strip-sized slab of copper in a reader. To make the metal ...