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Rockwell Hardness Test Significance

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2.1 Significance of the Test The Rockwell hardness test is an empirical indentation hardness test. Its worldwide adoption has likely resulted from the many advantages provided by the test method....

Rockwell Hardness Test Principle

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The Rockwell hardness test is one of several common indentation hardness tests used today, other examples being the Brinell hardness test and Vickers hardness test. Most indentation hardness tests are...

Rockwell Hardness Test Scales

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Many manufactured products are made of different types of metals and alloys varying in hardness, size, and thickness. To accommodate the testing of these diverse products, several different indenter types...

Rockwell Hardness Test Numbers

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A Rockwell hardness measurement is reported as a Rockwell hardness number, without units. The Rockwell hardness number is calculated from the difference in the indentation depths before and after application...

Rockwell Hardness Test Standards

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The Rockwell hardness test method is specified by several national and international standards. In North America, most Rockwell hardness testing is performed in accordance with standards published by the ASTM...

Rockwell Hardness Test Procedure

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Numerous aspects of the Rockwell hardness test can influence the measurement result. These include the function and calibration of individual components of the hardness machine, variations in the indenter, the...

Rockwell Hardness Test Choosing Scales

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The ASTM specifies thirty different Rockwell scales, each employing a different combination of test forces and indenter types, which allows the testing Test Procedure of most types of metallic materials...

Test surface preparation

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An important feature of the Rockwell hardness test procedure is the use of the preliminary force as part of the testing cycle. Application of the preliminary force acts to push...

Rockwell Hardness Testing Machine

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There are many designs of commercially manufactured Rockwell hardness testing machines. The testing machines discussed in this Guide and specified by the referenced test method standards are limited to only...

Hardness Measurement

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The Rockwell hardness test method procedure is described and specified by the test method standards. To facilitate comparisons with other Rockwell hardness data, the requirements of the standards should be...

REFERENCE TEST BLOCK STANDARDS

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Rockwell hardness test blocks are reference standards for transferring Rockwell hardness scale values from one standardizing level to a lower level; for example, transferring national hardness scale values directly to...

Primary Reference Test Blocks

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Primary reference test blocks are standardized using primary standardizing machines in accordance with the hardness definition. Usually, the National Metrology Institute (NMI) of a country standardizes the primary reference test...

Secondary Reference Test Blocks

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In the United States, and other countries throughout the world, the National Metrology Institutes are usually not the sole supplier of the needed reference standards for that country. Normally, secondary...

Use of Reference Test Block Standards

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Rockwell hardness reference test blocks are used primarily for the indirect verification (see 5.2) and daily verification (see 6.2) of a Rockwell hardness machine. Reference test blocks are also useful...

Verifications of Rockwell Hardness Machines

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In order to reduce the overall error in a Rockwell hardness measurement, it is important that the different sources of error are identified and the significant error sources be reduced...

Direct Verification

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Periodic direct verification of the individual components of a Rockwell hardness machine is an excellent tool for determining what errors exist in the measurement system and for indicating that a...

Indirect Verification

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Indirect verification, as specified by the test standards, involves assessing two aspects of the hardness machine: (1) its repeatability, or how well the hardness machine can repeatedly measure the same...

Correcting Measurement Biases

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For Rockwell hardness machines that have successfully passed both direct and indirect verifications, there will continue to be some level of measurement error or bias with respect to the reference...

Monitoring Test Machine Performance

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6.1 Reproducibility In the previous discussion of the repeatability of a hardness machine in 5.2.1, it was imagined that a small number of Rockwell measurements were made on a perfectly...

Daily Verification

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The test method standards state procedures for conducting a daily verification of the Rockwell hardness machine. The intent of the daily verification is for the user to monitor the reproducibility...

Reducing Measurement Differences and Errors

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Consider two Rockwell hardness machines, perhaps a supplier’s machine and a customer’s machine. Suppose both machines pass indirect verifications. Will the two machines then measure the same hardness value for...

Reduce Machine Component Operating Errors

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It is generally not possible to make good Rockwell hardness measurements with a poorly operating machine. The initial consideration should be to use a Rockwell machine capable of measuring to...

Verify Machine Measurement Performance

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The hardness measurement performance of a Rockwell machine does not depend solely on the parameters assessed during a direct verification. Once the components of the Rockwell hardness machine and indenter...

Measurement Locations

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The characteristics of the material to be tested must be taken into consideration when choosing appropriate measurement locations. Consider two hypothetical Rockwell hardness machines that agree perfectly in their measurement...

Traceability, Error, and Uncertainty

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8.1 Traceability Traceability is defined by the International Vocabulary of Basic and General Terms in Metrology (VIM)(20) as “Property of the result of a measurement or the value of a...

Measurement Error

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The Rockwell hardness test is usually thought of as a method that measures the hardness of a material. A more accurate description might be that the Rockwell hardness test only...

Uncertainty

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The determination of uncertainty associated with Rockwell hardness measurements is a relatively new concept for many users of Rockwell hardness as well as for laboratories engaged in hardness calibrations, such...

Status of Rockwell Hardness Standardization in the Year 2000

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9.1 United States The past few years have seen significant changes to Rockwell testing in the United States with the introduction of NIST Rockwell standards, accreditation of Rockwell calibration laboratories,...

Annex A:Applied Force Effect

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The magnitude of change in the Rockwell hardness value that results from a change in the applied force is shown in Figure A.1 for the preliminary force and in Figure...

Annex B

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To better understand the Rockwell hardness testing cycle, imagine it divided into eight parts or steps, as illustrated previously in Figure 3. These eight testing cycle steps are defined as...

Annex C

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The NIST SRM reference test blocks for the Rockwell C scale (HRC) are certified at three hardness levels; 25 HRC, 45 HRC, and 63 HRC, (SRMs 2810, 2811, and 2812,...

Rockwell Hardness Test

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2.1 Significance of the Test The Rockwell hardness test is an empirical indentation hardness test. Its worldwide adoption has likely resulted from the many advantages provided by the test method....

Introduction

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Working in a ball-bearing manufacturing plant in 1919, Stanley P. Rockwell invented the Rockwell hardness test as a tool for obtaining a rapid and more accurate measure of the hardness...

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