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CCM pilot study overview: geometrical measurement of the Rockwell diamond indenter

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Renato R. Machado, Samuel Low, Alessandro Germak

Abstract

This paper describes an overview of the capability of the NMIs that participated on the CCM Pilot Study measurement systems, conducted by the CIPM/CCM/Working Group on Hardness, to characterize the Rockwell hardness diamond indenter geometry, by measuring the included cone angle, the straightness of the generatrix, the spherical tip radius, the deviation of the local radius and the tilt angle. Nine NMIs took part in this study: INMETRO (Brazil); INRiM (Italy); KRISS (South Korea); NIM/PR (China); NIMT (Thailand); NIST (USA); PTB (Germany); TUBITAK UME (Turkey); VNIIFTRI (Russia), where INMETRO (Brazil) served as pilot laboratory.
Citation
ACTA IMEKO
Volume
9
Issue
5
Pub Type
Journals

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https://doi.org/10.21014/acta_imeko.v9i5.979
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Keywords

hardness, diamond indenter, geometry indenter, pilot study, CIPM/CCM/WGH
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Citation

Machado, R. , Low, S. and Germak, A. (2021), CCM pilot study overview: geometrical measurement of the Rockwell diamond indenter, ACTA IMEKO, [online], https://doi.org/10.21014/acta_imeko.v9i5.979, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=930780 (Accessed October 14, 2025)

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Created April 5, 2021, Updated September 29, 2025
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