• Engineers can use hardness testing to verify the composition or heat-treatment history of materials. • Rockwell, Brinell, Vickers, and Shore are common hardness tests. Their use depends on the ...

During development, when a fertilized egg transforms its shape dramatically into an animal's body, cell populations forming tissues are in a fluid state and thus the tissue can be easily deformed.

Scientists have now built a machine that sets a new standard of accuracy for testing a material's hardness, which is a measure of its resistance to bumps and scratches. In today's precision ...

Nanoindentation is a method of measurement of the mechanical properties of small volumes of materials using an instrumented indentation technique. Elastic modulus, hardness, fracture toughness, creep ...

Measuring how materials respond to different deformation speeds is imperfect, leaving gaps and uncertainties across strain rates. A single, self-consistent method to measure hardness across 11 orders ...

Nanoindentation is vital for revealing the quantitative mechanical properties of small volumes of materials. Currently, this method is a standardized method for determining plastic, elastic, and visco ...

WASHINGTON, July 30, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In today's precision manufacturing environment, designers of products as diverse as car airbag sensors, computer microchips, drill bits and paint ...

Instrumented indentation, or nanoindentation, is an important technique used for measuring the mechanical properties of materials, and can be conducted in situ even on the circuit board itself. This ...

Mizuno has been granted a patent for an object hardness measuring device. The device includes a load unit that applies a load to the measurement object, a measuring unit that measures the movement ...

Have you ever wondered what the hardness of tanzanite is? But before that, let’s understand what a Tanzanite is. It’s a pretty blue-violet gem that belongs to the mineral group. Think about strolling ...