RESULTS OF THE REVISION OF THE ISO STANDARDS FOR BRINELL, VICKERS, ROCKWELL AND KNOOP HARDNESS TESTS

Alois Wehrstedt

Abstract

With the aim to achieve worldwide valid ISO Standards the International standards committee ISO/TC 164/SC 3 "Hardness testing of metallic materials" published in 1997-1999 the hardness testing standards for the Brinell, Vickers and Rockwell methods according to the parallel voting in CEN. This contribution contains the results of the first revision of these standards carried out in 2004/2005 and presents for the users the most important amendments.

Keywords

hardness, ISO-standards, revision, results

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IMEKO TC

TC5 - Hardness Measurement

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