Micro-Hardness Tester with an Image Capture and Analysis Software and Hardware

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McMaster University has one of the strongest materials engineering research efforts in Canada and North America. Much of the effort and infrastructure for characterisation has been centrally located in McMaster's Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy (CCEM) part of Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research, which houses several conventional and high resolution scanning, and transmission electron microscopes, a focused ion beam instrument, an atomic force microscope and a small suite of optical instruments. The optical microscopy suite consists of four microscopes, two of which share Clemex PE Image Analysis software through Clemex video cameras. The other two are operated through and image capture system purchased in 2000, operating on a MS-DOS Eclipse LNK software program with one shared camera of the same vintage. The requested funds will allow the CCEM to upgrade the cameras and image analysis software on the older microscopes (purchased in 2000) in order to be able to perform high quality observations of complex microstructures. In addition, a modern microhardness indenter will be acquired which will make it possible to evaluate the local variation of mechanical properties within complex microstructures. The micro-hardness tester currently in use was purchased in 1976 and consists of a Shimadzy Type-M with loading capabilities from 15 to 1000gf with no camera attached.