Development of an automatic vickers hardness testing system using image processing technolog takao sugimoto and tadao kawaguchi

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 696-702

  Sugimoto, T ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automatic testing; Hardness measurement; Image processing; Image size analysis; Vickers hardness

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMPACT TESTING; MATERIALS TESTING APPARATUS; MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; STANDARDS;

VICKERS HARDNESS NUMBER; VICKERS HARDNESS TESTING SYSTEM;

HARDNESS TESTING;

EID: 0031259250     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/41.633474     Document Type: Article

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