Ball hardness

If we assume that molecules can be considered as billiard balls (hard spheres) without internal degrees of freedom, then the probability of reaction between, say, A and B depends on how often a molecule of A meets a molecule of B, and also if during this collision sufficient energy is available to cross the energy barrier that separates the reactants, A and B, from the product, AB. Hence, we need to calculate the collision frequency for molecules A and B. 

Magnetic material is mechanically separated from the slurry of ground ore and rolled into balls that are to be sent to furnaces for producing small balls. To reinforce the material better and to give it greater hardness a hinder such as natural peat is usually added. The content of the binder has an effect on ball hardness, as can be seen from experimental values. 

Sometimes, even if you hit the ball hard enough, it doesn t go into the pocket because you didn t hit it in the right spot. The same is true during a molecular collision. The molecules must collide in the right orientation, or hit at the right spot, in order for the reaction to occur. 

Hardness of plastics is difficult to establish and compare because there is an enormous range of values. Hardness measured by indentors is also difficult because there is an elastic recovery effect. Among the most important methods for testing this property are Ball hardness, Rockwell hardness, and Shore hardness. Olher methods are also commonly used. The Rockwell hardness test determines the hardness after allowing for elastic recovery in the test specimen. Both Ball and Shore hardness tests exclude any elastic recovery effects. 

In the Ball hardness test (ISO 2039-1), a polished steel ball is pressed into the surface of the test specimen. After 30 s of load application, the depth of the impression is measured. Ball hardness is calculated as applied load divided by surface area of the impression (newtons per mm ). Typical values for relatively soft and stiff engineering plastics are 100 N/mm and 150 N/mm respectively. 

This characteristic makes it difficult to interpret hardness measurements except with the ball-identation method which can be considered reasonably accurate. The resulting contact hardness is defined as the average pressure required to indent the material to a depth equal to 2/100th. of the radius of the ball. Other hardness-meeisurement methods such as the Scleroscope (which is the measure of the rebound height of a falling diamond-tipped hammer) are convenient but, as they are not based on the same principle, cannot readily be correlated with the ball hardness. 

The test according to DIN 53393 [250] is used to establish the behavior of glass fiber-reinforced plastics under unilateral and under general chemical influence under defined conditions. For the evaluation of material behavior, the appearance of the specimen and of the test medium, strength and dimensional change properties in flexural tests, ball hardness, as well as specimen weight (only under general load) are utilized. 

Taking the effective modulus =173GPa, the steel ball hardness H = 7.7 GPa and the root mean square slope of a profile Aq = 0.006, it follows that / = 0.14 and the contact is expected to be predominantly elastic. 

Figure Bl.21.1. Atomic hard-ball models of low-Miller-index bulk-temiinated surfaces of simple metals with face-centred close-packed (fee), hexagonal close-packed (licp) and body-centred cubic (bcc) lattices (a) fee (lll)-(l X 1) (b)fcc(lO -(l X l) (c)fcc(110)-(l X 1) (d)hcp(0001)-(l x 1) (e) hcp(l0-10)-(l X 1), usually written as hcp(l010)-(l x 1) (f) bcc(l 10)-(1 x ]) (g) bcc(100)-(l x 1) and (li) bcc(l 11)-(1 x 1). The atomic spheres are drawn with radii that are smaller than touching-sphere radii, in order to give better depth views. The arrows are unit cell vectors. These figures were produced by the software program BALSAC [35]-...

Figure Bl.21.2. Atomic hard-ball models of stepped and kinked high-Miller-index bulk-temiinated surfaces of simple metals with fee lattices, compared with anfcc(l 11) surface fcc(755) is stepped, while fee...

Hamiltonian quantum mechanical operator for energy, hard sphere assumption that atoms are like hard billiard balls, which is implemented by having an infinite potential inside the sphere radius and zero potential outside the radius Hartree atomic unit of energy... 

Crushing and grinding uses mechanical force to break larger particles into smaller ones. A variety of tools are used depending on the particle s size and hardness. Large particles are crushed using jaw crushers capable of reducing particles to diameters of a few millimeters. Ball mills, disk mills, and mortars and pestles are used to further reduce particle size. 

Brinell. The first rehable indentation hardness test was developed by BrineU in 1900 and used ball bearings to make indentations in steel (1). The technique has remained rehable and essentially unchanged for nearly 100 years. The test, described by ASTM Standard ElO (2), is stiU in use. 

The principle of the Brinell hardness test is that the spherical surface area of a recovered indentation made with a standard hardened steel ball under specific load is direcdy related to the property called hardness. In the following, HBN = Brinell hardness number, P = load in kgf,... 

Because of the geometric limitations of the indenting ball the relationship between indentation area and computed hardness number deviates from linearity when the recovered indentation diameter of a 10-mm ball is less than 2.5 mm or greater than 6.0 mm. 

International Rubber Hardness. The International mbber hardness test (ASTM D1415) (2) for elastomers is similar to the Rockwell test ia that the measured property is the difference ia penetration of a standard steel ball between minor and major loads. The viscoelastic properties of elastomers require that a load appHcation time, usually 30 seconds, be a part of the test procedure. The hardness number is read directly on a scale of 0 to 100 upon return to the minor load. International mbber hardness numbers are often considered equivalent to Durometer hardness numbers but differences ia iadenters, loads, and test time preclude such a relationship. 

Mohs hardness values may vary Shore hardness number is derived from rebound height of standard steel ball when dropped on material from standard height. 

Hard rock mining of these ore bodies requkes drilling and blasting with ammonium nitrate and dynamite. After blasting, the ore is reduced in size with a drop ball and then loaded on tmcks for transportation to the processing plant. Mica, quartz, and feldspar concentrates are separated, recovered, and sold from the hard rock ore. 

Ball- and roller-bearing materials ate commonly selected to provide a minimum Rockwell hardness of 58—60 R at load-carrying contacts (37,38). Below this level, fatigue strength drops so rapidly as to seriously impair the utiUty of a material for rolling beatings which involve contact stresses in the 700—2800 MPa... 

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