Establishing a world-wide unified Rockwell hardness scale with metrological traceability

Metrologia

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 331-342

  Song, J F ^a   Low, S ^a   Pitchure, D ^a   Germak, A ^b   DeSogus, S ^b   Polzin, T ^c   Yang, H Q ^d   Ishida, H ^e   Barbato, G ^f  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Istituto di Metrologia Gustavo Colonnetti   (Italy)

^c Materialprüfungsamt Nordrhein Westfalen MPA NRW   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROLOGY   (China)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROCKWELL HARDNESS (HR) SCALES;

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; STANDARDS;

HARDNESS TESTING;

EID: 0031358665     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/34/4/6     Document Type: Article

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