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DEVELOPING DEFINITIONS OF CONVENTIONAL HARDNESS TESTS FOR USE BY NATIONAL METROLOGY INSTITUTES

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Author(s)

Samuel Low, Jun-Feng Song, Alessandro Germak, Andy Knott, Renato Reis Machado

Abstract

This paper describes the process used by the Consultative Committee for Mass and Related Quantities - Working Group on Hardness (CCM-WGH) of the International Committee of Weights and Measures (CIPM) to develop international definitions of the conventional Rockwell, Brinell, Vickers and Knoop hardness test methods, for use by the National Metrology Institutes (NMI) that standardize hardness measurement.
Citation
Measurement: Sensors
Volume
18
Pub Type
Journals

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measen.2021.100096
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Keywords

hardness, definitions, CCM-WGH, NMI
Standards, Reference instruments and Documentary standards

Citation

Low, S. , Song, J. , Germak, A. , Knott, A. and Reis Machado, R. (2021), DEVELOPING DEFINITIONS OF CONVENTIONAL HARDNESS TESTS FOR USE BY NATIONAL METROLOGY INSTITUTES, Measurement: Sensors, [online], https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measen.2021.100096, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=932267 (Accessed October 14, 2025)

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Created September 16, 2021, Updated November 29, 2022
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