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Lab # 1 Hardness Testing
Lab # 1 Hardness Testing
Lab # 1 Hardness Testing
MATERIALS LABORATORY
(Course Instructor: Hamid Nourollahi)
Spring 2015
LAB 1 HARDNESS TESTING
The LAB:
Vickers hardness testing of various materials
Samples (in inches)
6061-T6 Aluminum ( x x 1)
1018 Cold Rolled Steel ( x x 1)
Half Hard Brass Alloy 360 ( x x 1)
110 Copper (1 x 0.2 x 5.8)
Zirconia (ZrO2 ) ceramic
Equipment
Vickers Hardness Tester
Procedure
ii.
Right knob (arrow E in figure below) fine tunes
3. Turn eye piece 90 and measure again.
Repeat process 3 times for each material (make sure you leave at least 3 to 5
times the indent diameter between each indentation).
THE REPORT:
You work for a company that produces gears for automobiles and your boss asks you to
evaluate which of these materials would be best suited for production. It has been
determined that a hardness of 500 HV30 is needed to a good property to measure that
would aid in the first stage of the materials selection process.
Your task is to determine which (if any) of these materials are suitable for this
application. Your report (no more than five pages) should include (but not limited to) the
following:
APPENDIX:
Note: All values should be written as Vickers hardness number HVF, where F
is the force applied. (Example: 800 HV20 represents a Vickers hardness of 800 made
with a force of 20kgf which was applied for 10-15 seconds).
Note that the values read from the eyepiece are in micrometers.
Equations used:
F
2
d
HV 1.854
(1)
Where,
d d2
d 1
2
F = load in kgf.
d = average length in millimeters.