Hardness is a characteristic of a materials ability to resist indentation. A common use for hardness tests is to verify the heat treatment of a part and to determine if a material has the properties necessary for its intended use. Establishing a correlation between the hardness result and the desired material property allows this, making hardness tests very useful in industrial and R & D applications.




• Micro-Vickers HV0.01 - HV1.0 Scale
• Rockwell C Scale





• Nitrided
• Carbonitrided
• Induction hardened

 		• Nitrocarburized
• Carburized
• And more





• ASTM E3
• ASTM E7
• ASTM E18
• ASTM E140
• ASTM E340
• ASTM E384
• ASTM E407






• Micro-Vickers hardness testing
• Coating or 'zone' thickness measurement
• Photo-micrographs of microstructures



• Mitutoyo Micro-Vickers Hardness Tester
• Buehler metallurgical wet saw
• Standard test blocks
• Rockwell C scale Hardness Tester
• Buehler metallurgical heated specimen mounting press
• Buehler Minimet metallurgical grinding/polishing machine



• Effective case depth
• Total case depth
• Base material hardness
• Coating thickness & hardness
• And more



• Microstructures
• Wear sites
• Test sites
• And more





• Hardness values at test locations
• Depth of `zones` or layers
• Depth & width of wear
• Angles
• And more





• Mild steel
• Alloy steel
• Cast iron
• Stainless steel
• Tool steel