diamond pyramid number hardness

  • 1diamond pyramid hardnesstest — this test, more commonly known as the TestVickers test, finds greater use in the laboratory than the workshop. It employs a pyramid shaped diamond with an included angle of 136( which is impressed into the specimen using loads of 5 to 120 kg… …

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  • 2diamond pyramid hardness — Vickers hardness number …

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  • 3hardness tester — ▪ device       device that indicates the hardness of a material, usually by measuring the effect on its surface of a localized penetration by a standardized rounded or pointed indenter of diamond, carbide, or hard steel.       Brinell hardness is …

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  • 4number — 1. A symbol expressive of a certain value or of a specific quantity determined by count. 2. The place of any unit in a series. atomic n. (Z) the n. of protons in the nucleus of an atom; it indicates the position of the …

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  • 5Vickers hardness test — A Vickers hardness tester The Vickers hardness test was developed in 1924 by Smith and Sandland at Vickers Ltd as an alternative to the Brinell method to measure the hardness of materials.[1] The Vickers test is often easier to use than other… …

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  • 6Indentation hardness — tests are used to determine the hardness of a material to deformation. Several such tests exist, wherein the examined material is indented until an impression is formed; these tests can be performed on a macroscopic or microscopic scale. When… …

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  • 7Vickers hardness — ▪ mineralogy       a measure of the hardness of a material, calculated from the size of an impression produced under load by a pyramid shaped diamond indenter. Devised in the 1920s by engineers at Vickers, Ltd., in the United Kingdom, the diamond …

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  • 8Vickers hardness number — (HV or VHN) or Vickers pyramid number (VPN)    a measure of the hardness of a metal introduced by Vickers in 1922. In the Vickers test (suitable for surface hardened metals), a pyramidal diamond is pressed into the material being tested. The… …

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  • 9Vickers hardness number — a number indicative of the degree of relative hardness of materials, determined by measuring the long diagonals of indentation made by pressing the pyramidal point of a diamond into the surface of the material being tested; equal to the load in… …

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  • 10Knoop hardness number — See under number. * * * a number indicative of the degree of relative hardness of a material, calculated from the load employed and the length of the long axis of the impression made by the rhomboidal pyramid of a diamond pressed into the surface …

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