Portable Hardness Testers

‘Hardness’ is the measurement solid matter’s resilience to various types of permanent shape change when a level of force is applied. Obviously, some materials are harder than others, but to define levels of hardness, a hardness tester is used. Portable hardness testers are hand-held hardness testing devices that can be moved from location to location. A portable hardness tester is a favourite tool of the industry because they lend themselves to testing large samples, which cannot be brought to a traditional table top hardness tester, or specimens with hard to access areas are to be tested Hardness testers are utilised in the fields of engineering and metallurgy.