A material’s hardness relates to its mechanical resistance when subjected to mechanical indentation by another harder body. Diamond is considered the hardest natural material and is typically used for ...

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 ...

HARDNESS, as recent correspondence in NATURE (vol. cvi., pp. 377, 440, 534, 599, 662, November, 192o–January, 1921) has shown, is a subject of interest to both the engineer and the physicist. Whatever ...

It’s now possible to more easily check the hardness of tiny elastomer part, thanks to a novel testing instrument with supersmall motor-driven probes. Ordinary Shore A hardness testers use a conically ...