ALIGNMENT TILT AND FORCE TRANSDUCER CREEP EFFECTS ON HARDNESS IN CONVENTIONAL HARDNESS TESTS

J. D. Fidelus, D. Bejma, A. Prato, A. Germak
Abstract:
This paper describes the investigations of alignment effects and the influence of force transducer creep in conventional hardness tests performed on GUM’s deadweight-type Rockwell Hardness Standard Machine (HSM), Vickers Hardness Machine (HM), Brinell HM and INRiM’s Primary Hardness Standard Machine (PHSM).
Keywords:
hardness; Rockwell; Vickers; Brinell; alignment effects; force transducer creep
Download:
IMEKO-TC5-2022-104.pdf
DOI:
10.21014/tc5-2022.104
Event details
IMEKO TC:
TC5
Event name:
TC5 Conference 2022
Title:

14th TC5 Conference on the Measurement of Hardness (together with the 24th TC3 Conference on the Measurement of Force, Mass and Torque, the 6th TC16 Conference on Pressure and Vacuum Measurement, and the 5th TC22 Conference on Vibration Measurement)

Place:
Cavtat-Dubrovnik, CROATIA
Time:
11 October 2022 - 13 October 2022