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Everything you ever wondered about Brinell testing

The BRINscope Duo

Accurately measuring the diameter of a Brinell indentation is, of course, as important as making the indentation properly in the first place. But this is

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22/06/2022

The BRINtronic Neo

Foundrax’s revolutionary, automatic indentation measurement microscope – the ‘BRINtronic’ – has  been available for many years as an integral part of our Brinell testing machines

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20/06/2022

The Brinell hardness tester explained

All the essentials of the Brinell hardness tester explained A Brinell hardness tester is a machine that is used for measuring the hardness of metal.

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22/11/2021

Another one of our ‘X-BHD’, bridge-type, Brinell hardness testers left the workshop last week

This machine, one of a long and distinguished line of large Foundrax Brinell testers (they can be found all around the Globe) enables the in-situ

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15/10/2021

Brinell Hardness Testing Tips

To make a true Brinell test using a floor-standing or bench-mounted Brinell hardness tester, according to the requirements of ISO 6506 or ASTM E10-18: Setting

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06/09/2021

How to calculate Brinell hardness

One of the internationally accepted methods of measuring metal hardness is by Brinell testing.  Brinell testing expresses the hardness numerically and the “Brinell hardness number”

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18/08/2021

Metal hardness and the development of hardness testing

Understanding metal hardness The need to know the approximate hardness of metals would have been apparent to those who worked with the material thousands of

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05/07/2021

Brinell hardness testing explained and compared

Information on Brinell hardness testing; uses, advantages and disadvantages.

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01/06/2021

A guide to buying a Brinell hardness tester

Are you considering the purchase of a Brinell hardness tester? Why choose Foundrax?   There are other hardness tester suppliers, after all… Well, it’s all about

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25/05/2021

Brinell ‘automatic scanners’

Brinell “scanners” Some in the world of metal hardness testing talk about “scanning” Brinell indentations to measure their diameter. Others refer to using “artificial intelligence”

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08/04/2021

Why hardness test blocks are used

Brinell Hardness Test Blocks Every year, thousands of Brinell test blocks leave our workshop; destined for customers in over 40 countries. These blocks, more correctly

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08/04/2021
Indenters side by side

Size matters: The issue of indenter diameters – more for the non-specialist

Rockwell and Vickers hardness tests have their place in the metrologist’s armoury but, for large cast components, the Brinell hardness test is still very much

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26/03/2021
Hardness Testing – The History

Hardness testing – the history

Foundrax MD Alex Austin explained the background to Brinell testing late in 2019 in an article for Materials Today, an abridged version of which is

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11/03/2021
Calibration blocks After

The Brinell test block production process explained

It sometimes surprises customers that our Brinell test blocks cost a three-figure sum.  Well, it needs to be stated at the outset that using metals

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08/02/2021
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Uncertainty without doubt!

One of my favourite reference book titles, because of the obvious humorous aspect to it, is Doubt-Free Uncertainty in Measurement*. It seems to me that

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05/11/2020
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Minimising injury risk during Brinell hardness tests

Does your metal hardness testing put your operators at risk? Foundrax MD Alex Austin discusses the hazards: I have visited several customer sites where the

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28/09/2020

The introduction of automatic indentation measurement: the Foundrax development that revolutionised Brinell hardness testing

Foundrax MD Alex Austin on the ‘slow revolution’ in Brinell testing that the company pioneered Foundrax has been in the hardness testing business for over

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24/08/2020

Hardness testing – some information for non-specialists

The term ‘hardness’ is used to describe a material’s ability to resist being deformed.  Hardness testing provides data on how hard materials are by giving

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25/09/2019

The problem of hardness testing large, unwieldy items accurately

Sometimes, if you’re hoping to do a Brinell hardness test on something that’s heavy and awkward to manoeuvre, it’s easier to take the tester to

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25/09/2019

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