indenter , also: indentor

As the indenter tip wears the C value will increase.

The variables k and n are also dependent on the size of the indenter.

The displacement is used to calculate the contact surface area, A, based on the indenter geometry.

The constants account for the projected area of the indenter and unit conversion factors.

In most cases the indenter is attached to the holder using a rigid metal bonding process.

For a perfect Berkovich indenter the relationship is .

Here, the subscript i indicates a property of the indenter material and is Poisson's ratio.

Rockwell hardness test - using a diamond cone indenter.

The equation based definition of hardness is the pressure applied over the contact area between the indenter and the material being tested.

The bulk modulus test uses an indenter tool to form a permanent deformation in a material.

For very hard materials the radius can be three times as large as the indenter's radius.

The fiber has been totally pushed out of the matrix and the indenter collides with the matrix surface.

The indentation that is left after the indenter and load are removed is known to "recover", or spring back slightly.

In all these, a process is defined for loading the indenter, measuring the resulting indentation and calculating a hardness number.

Because of this Meyer's law is often restricted to values of d greater than 0.5 mm up to the diameter of the indenter.

The final value of the hardness depends on the depth of the indenter after it has been applied for 15sec on the material.

The tip end of the indenter can be made sharp, flat, or rounded to a cylindrical or spherical shape.

The Berkovich tip has the same projected area-to-depth ratio as a Vickers indenter.

The load placed on the indenter tip is increased as the tip penetrates further into the specimen and soon reaches a user-defined value.

The tests work on the basic premise of measuring the critical dimensions of an indentation left by a specifically dimensioned and loaded indenter.

Instead, an indenter with a geometry known to high precision (usually a Berkovich tip, which has a three-sided pyramid geometry) is employed.

The 45N scale employs a 45-kgf load on a diamond cone-shaped Brale indenter, and can be used on dense ceramics.

Second is the extrusion or escape tectonics mechanism which sees the Indian plate as an indenter that squeezed the Indochina block out of its way.

The first reference to the Vickers indenter with low loads was made in the annual report of the National Physical Laboratory in 1932.

Except for testing thin materials in accordance with A623 the steel indenter balls have been replaced by tungsten carbide balls of the varying diameters.