AMTL Lab Report Nicky

Rockwell Hardness Tester

MATERIALS Plain Carbon B Steel Brass Hardened Steel B C SCALE FIRST READING 73 SECOND READING 73.75 THIRD READING 75.25 AVERAGE HRB 74

71 61

69 60.5

71.5 59.5

HRB 70.5 HRC 60

Brinell Hardness Tester

MATERIALS Brass Indentation diameter BHN Indentation diameter BHN FIRST READING 2.97 70.5 4.45 30.5 SECOND READING 3.0 69.1 4.5 29.8 THIRD READING 2.95 71.5 4.55 29.1 AVERAGE BHN 70.4

Aluminium

BHN 29.8

Vickers Hardness Tester

MATERIALS Hardened Steel Diagonal values VHN FIRST READING 0.365 695.8 SECOND READING 0.37 677.1 THIRD READING 0.39 609.5 AVERAGE VHN 660.8

Discussion: (i) Hardness is the resistance of a material when various kinds of forces like abrasion or surface indentation, cutting action, or permanent distortion is applied. The Rockwell Hardness Tester is used in rapid hardness testing because the whole process of testing the material takes up very little time as it can be done quickly. The test piece does not require any preparation and the hardness number can be read off directly from the machine dial. Hence, there will be no need for any calculations to be made to find out the hardness number of the material.

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