INTECH NDE - Vickers Hardness

Vickers Hardness

TIV is a portable test instrument for optical hardness testing according to Vickers under test load (Fig. 11). An optical system including a CCD camera enables viewing “through the diamond” (Through- Indenter-Viewing). For the first time this new method makes it possible to directly watch the process of the Vickers diamond penetrating the test material on the display. The TIV technique can be used to carry out a hardness test without any additional calibration on different materials thanks to the optical method of measurement. Moreover, the static test load application also makes it possible to carry out measurements on both thin and small objects, as well as on coatings.