Quality Test & Inspection: Invisible to the Human Eye
Measuring microhardness and evaluating material properties for industrial quality control applications increases product quality.
Material property analysis and hardness measurement provide a broad spectrum of data to a wide variety of markets. Traditionally hardness has been defined as the resistance of a material to permanent penetration by another harder material. Hardness results performing Rockwell, Vickers and Brinell tests are determined after the test force has been removed. Any effect of elastic deformation under the indenter is therefore ignored.