Micro Vickers hardness tester HV-1000

benchtopfor non-ferrous metalsfor steel

The HV-1000 range of hardness testers makes use of the Micro-Vickers Hardness test to quantify the hardness of various metals and non-metals. It is particularly useful to test the Vickers hardness of non-iron metals, steel, specially-treated metallic layers and ceramics. It is used to evaluate the hardness grades of nitrided, carburized and hardened metallic layers. Since the hardness tester uses micro-indentation, it is especially suited to test the Vickers hardness of ultra-thin components. The load, dwell and unloading functions are completely automatic. It can handle testing loads of 10, 25, 50, 100, 200, 300, 500 and 1000 gf and optionally 2000gf, i.e 2kg weight optionally. It is equipped with a wide range of testing forces of 0.098, 0.245, 0.49, 0.98, 1.96, 2.94, 4.9 and 9.8 N, for the efficient testing of an array of materials. The tester can test hardness in a range of 8HV to 2900HV. The load dwelling time is typically 0-60s and can be adjusted as desired. The microscope produces magnified images to the tune of 10x for observing and 40x for measuring the indentation. It is equipped with an integrated thermal printer. The hardness tester is provided with an optional CCD imaging unit to facilitate video measurements. The HV-1000 is perfectly suitable for determining the Vickers hardness of materials like IC wafers, metal foils, thin plastic, coatings, platings and surface layers, laminated metals, gems, agate, glass, ceramics, gradient of carburized and flame-hardened metallic layers.