ASTM E110-82(1997)e2
(Test Method)Standard Test Method for Indentation Hardness of Metallic Materials by Portable Hardness Testers
Standard Test Method for Indentation Hardness of Metallic Materials by Portable Hardness Testers
SCOPE
1.1 This test method covers determination of the indentation hardness of metallic materials by means of portable hardness testers.
1.2 This test method applies only to those portable hardness testers which apply the same nominal loads and use the same indenters as are used in the methods listed in Section 2.
1.3 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety problems, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
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Designation: E 110 – 82 (Reapproved 1997)
Standard Test Method for
Indentation Hardness of Metallic Materials by Portable
Hardness Testers
This standard is issued under the fixed designation E 110; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (e) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
This standard has been approved for use by agencies of the Department of Defense.
e NOTE—Sections 3, 4, and 5 were corrected editorially in January 1998.
e NOTE—The term load was changed to force editorially throughout in May 1999.
hardness testers of the types covered in this method do not employ dead
1. Scope
weights to fix the indenting forces. This imposes certain limitations and
1.1 This test method covers determination of the indentation
necessitates certain precautions, which are set forth in this test method. All
hardness of metallic materials by means of portable hardness
requirements of the standard methods except those modified by the
testers.
following sections shall apply to the use of portable hardness testers.
1.2 This test method applies only to those portable hardness
3. Apparatus
testers which apply the same nominal forces and use the same
indenters as are used in the methods listed in Section 2.
3.1 Portable hardness testers are used principally for testing
1.3 This standard does not purport to address all of the articles that are too large or unwieldy to be tested in the usual
safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the
types of testing machines, for testing parts of fixed structures,
responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appro- or for testing under any conditions which require that the
priate safety and health practices and determine the applica-
indenting force be applied in a direction other than vertical. In
bility of regulatory limitations prior to use. order that they may be portable and also in order that the
indenting forces may be applied in any direction, these testers
2. Referenced Documents
are designed in such a way that dead weights are not used in
2.1 ASTM Standards:
applying or limiting the indenting force.
E 10 Test Method for Brinell Hardness of Metallic Materi-
3.2 The indenting force may be applied by means of a
als
hydraulic cylinder with a pressure gage to indicate the magni-
E 18 Test Methods for Rockwell Hardness and Rockwell
tude of the force. The hydraulic cylinder may also be equipped
Superficial Hardness of Metallic Materials
with a spring-forceed relief valve to fix the magnitude of the
E 92 Test Method for Vickers Hardness of Metallic Mate-
force. Alternatively the indenting force may be applied by
rials
means of a screw through a calibrated spring with a dial gage
E 140 Hardness Conversion Tables for Metals (Relationship
or other means of measuring the deflection of the spring to
Between Brinell Hardness, Vickers Hardness, Rockwell
indicate the magnitude of the force.
Hardness, Rockwell Superficial Hardness, and Knoop
3.3 Portable hardness testers are generally provided with
Hardness)
various means of holding the indenter in contact with the
surface to be tested. The testers may be clamped to the object
NOTE 1—Test Methods E 10, E 18, and E 92 will be referred to in this
to be tested, attached to an adjacent fixed object or attached to
test method as the“ standard methods.”
the surface to be tested by a magnet. For testing inside a cavity
NOTE 2—The standard methods of making the three hardness tests do
not preclude the use of portable hardness testers. However, the machines the tester may be placed against one wall of the cavity to make
usually used, and considered preferable for these tests, are generally
a test on the opposite wall.
designed so that the magnitude of the indenting force is fixed by dead
weights acting on a small piston connected to a hydraulic loading cylinder,
4. Procedure
or by dead weights acting through a multiple lever system. Portable
4.1 Whatever means is used to hold the tester to the piece
being tested, make sure that there is no relative motion between
This test method is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee E-28 on
the tester and the piece when the force is applied. This is
Mechanical Testing and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee E28.06 on
particularly true for the portable Rockwell type tester. Mount
Indentation Hardness Testing.
the tester in such a position that the axis of the indenter is
Current edition approved July 30, 1982. Published December 1982. Originally
normal to the surface to be tested.
published as E 110 – 55 T. Last previous edition E 110– 61 (1977).
Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 03.01.
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