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Engineering Materials Technology, 2nd Edition
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Engineering Materials Technology, 2nd Edition

by William Bolton
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
468 pages
20h 15m
English
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Content preview from Engineering Materials Technology, 2nd Edition
Basic
properties
101
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Necking
Figure 5.9 Necking of a tensile test piece
5.2 Hardness
The
hardness
of a material can be defined in terms of the ability of a material to
resist indentation or scratching. There is no absolute scale of hardness and
hardness values are expressed in terms of a scale associated with a particular
test. Though some relationships exist between results on one scale and on
another, care has to be taken in making comparisons between measurements
on different scales since the tests associated with the scales are measuring
different things.
The most common form of hardness tests for metals involves standard
indentors bein ...
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ISBN: 9781483141077