THE THEORY OF INDENTATION AND HARDNESS TESTS
THE THEORY OF INDENTATION AND HARDNESS TESTS
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DOI:
10.1088/0959-5309/57/3/301
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发表时间:
1945-01-01
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通讯作者:
MOTT, NF
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作者:
BISHOP, RF;MOTT, NF
A discussion is given of the indentation of ductile materials by cylindrical punches with conical heads. On the experimental side, experiments have been made with work-hardened and with annealed copper, with penetrations up to nine times the diameter of the punch. It is found that the load rises towards a maximum value which is not approached until the base of the cone has travelled four to five diameters into the copper block. Denoting this maximum load by p 0 A, where A is the area of the cross-section of the punch, it is found that p 0 for a lubricated punch is about twice the hardness, or five times the yield stress, of the work-hardened material. A theoretical method is given for calculating p 0, as follows: the pressures p c and p 8 required to enlarge a cylindrical and a spherical hole in a material showing any kind of strain hardening can be calculated. It is plausible to assume that p 0 should be between p c and p 8, and since p 8 is only slightly greater than p c, an approximate theoretical estimate of p 0 is obtained. This is in good agreement with experiment. In the light of these results a qualitative discussion is given of hardness testing, and it is shown both on experimental and on theoretical grounds that with lubricated cones and work-hardened materials the hardness, ie load/indentation area, will not depend much on the angle of the cone unless this is less than 10.