Rockwell C hardness number

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CPVC Chlorinated polyfvinyl chloride) HRC Rockwell C hardness number... 

A large number of materials are available for the screw and barrel. Most extruder barrels in the U. S. have a liner, which is centrifugally cast into the barrel. The barrel liner is made of a wear-resistant material, often boron-stabilized white irons with a Rockwell C hardness of about 65 containing iron chromium boron carbides. Bimetallic barrels provide better wear resistance than nitrided barrels as reported, for... 

An alternative to the measurement of the dimensions of the indentation by means of a microscope is the direct reading method, of which the Rockwell method is an example. The Rockwell hardness is based on indentation into the sample under the action of two consecutively applied loads - a minor load (initial) and a standardised major load (final). In order to eliminate zero error and possible surface effects due to roughness or scale, the initial or minor load is first applied and produce an initial indentation. The Rockwell hardness is based on the increment in the indentation depth produced by the major load over that produced by the minor load. Rockwell hardness scales are divided into a number of groups, each one of these corresponding to a specified penetrator and a specified value of the major load. The different combinations are designated by different subscripts used to express the Rockwell hardness number. Thus, when the test is performed with 150 kg load and a diamond cone indentor, the resulting hardness number is called the Rockwell C (Rc) hardness. If the applied load is 100 kg and the indentor used is a 1.58 mm diameter hardened steel ball, a Rockwell B (RB) hardness number is obtained. The facts that the dial has several scales and that different indentation tools can be filled, enable Rockwell machine to be used equally well for hard and soft materials and for small and thin specimens. Rockwell hardness number is dimensionless. The test is easy to carry out and rapidly accomplished. As a result it is used widely in industrial applications, particularly in quality situations. 

In the Rockwell test a spheroconical diamond (Brale) indenter or a hardened steel ball is used with various load ranges to achieve a series of scales identified by a suffix letter (Table 3). The suffix letter defines both load and indenter. The most popular scales used are "C" for hard materials and MBM for soft materials. A Rockwell hardness number is meaningless without the letter suffix, eg, HRC 54 or HRB 95. 

The A, D, and C Rockwell scales used primarily for steel and hard materials yield hardness numbers from 20 to about 85. Hardness numbers lower than HRC 20 are invalid the Rockwell B, G, or F scales should be used. Hardness conversions from one scale to another are available for some common... 

Fig. 17. Isothermal transformation (IT) diagram for a plain carbon eutectoid steel (1). Ae1 is temperature at equilibrium BHN, BrineU hardness number Rc, Rockwell hardness scale C. C is 0.89% Mn, 0.29% austenitized at 885°C grain size is 4—6. Photomicrographs originally x2500.

There are four major indentation hardness tests, which differ from each other in the shape of the indenter (Figure 10.23). The first of these, described in 1900, was the Brinell test, using a 10 mm steel ball indenter (Figure 10.23a), giving the Brinell hardness number, BHN. This was suitable only for metals softer than steel. In 1920 Rockwell developed a number of tests, including the B, E, F and G scales, in which the indenter is steel, and the A, C and D scales, using a conical diamond indenter with a spherical tip (Figures 10.23b and 10.23c). In the Rockwell test the difference in size between the... 

Other common hardness tests involve the use of diamond pyramids. In the Vickers hardness test, a square pyramid is used and in the Knoop hardness test, the pyramid is elongated. The area term in the former test is the actual indentation area and in the latter, the projected area. From the impression geometries, shown in Fig. 6.30, the Vickers Hardness Number (VHN) and Knoop Hardness Number (KHN) can be shown to be VHN=1.854F/a and KHN=14.2F/L, respectively. A common hardness test in the USA is the RockweO hardness test, which uses various indenter types and loads. The result of these tests is a dimensionless number and leads to the use of various hardness scales (e.g., Rockwell B, Rockwell C). 

The stainless steel designations are those of the American Iron and Steel Institute. The composition of most of the other materials is listed in Engineering Alloys [23] and those not so listed are included in Table 5-2. All the materials were tested in the annealed condition except in the cases where parentheses follow the alloy designation, in Table 5-3. The number thus enclosed is the hardness of the material on either the Rockwell C (RC) or Rockwell B (RB) scale. 

The product had a softening range of 80°-105°C, a specific gravity (ASTM D792-50) of 1.267 at 25°C, and an iodine number of 55. It is soluble in ketones, benzene, ethyl acetate. When cured in the presence of 2% tert-butyl perbenzoate (15 min at 175°C under 6000 p.s.i. of pressure), a thermset resin is formed with a Rockwell hardness of 114-116 (M-scale), flexural strength of 9000 p.s.i., and a heat distortion point at 264p.s.i. of 155°C [103]. 

Hardness is closely related to strength, stiffness, scratch resistance, wear resistance, and brittleness. The opposite characteristic, softness, is associated with ductility. There are different kinds of hardness that measure a number of different properties (see Fig. 2-25). The usual hardness tests are listed in three categories a) to measure the resistance of a material to indentation by an indentor some measure indentation with the load applied, some the residual indentation after it is removed, such as tests using Brinell hardness, Vickers and Knoop indentors, Barcol hardness, and Shore durometers b) to measure the resistance of a material to scratching by another material or by a sharp point, such as the Bierbaum hardness or scratch-resistance test and the Moh one for hardness and c) to measure rebound efficiency or resilience, such as the various Rockwell hardness tests. 

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