Hardness Testing Accessories

When testing hardness, a hardness testing machine isn’t the only equipment requirement. Instead, the process requires a range of accessories right through to equipment to position or clamp materials into place, through to lenses for viewing clarity, as well as containers for holding any specimens. It’s important to have high-quality equipment that doesn’t interfere with the testing procedures, and influence results. The industry standard of testing hardness is cohering to scales of Vickers, Knoop and Brinell and it’s important equipment performs to these scales. The most common hardness testing accessories include; specimen holders indenters, vices and jaws, test blocks, objective lenses, anvils, and ecos software. Hardness testers are commonly utilised in the fields of engineering and metallurgy.