Heat treatment is an essential technique for influencing workpiece characteristics. Several industries focus on reliable part design to avoid breaking parts, e.g. by decreasing material weight and ...

Hardness tests let engineers check whether materials have been processed correctly. • Engineers can use hardness testing to verify the composition or heat-treatment history of materials. • Rockwell, ...

Ceramic coatings are used in motorsports to protect against heat and wear. Image Credits: Marcin Krzyzaks/shutterstock.com Ceramic coatings are used in a wide variety of industrial and commercial ...

It might not seem like scraping the top of a cold stick of butter with a knife could be a scientific test, but engineers say the process is very similar to the "scratch test," which is perhaps the ...

HARDNESS, as recent correspondence in NATURE (vol. cvi., pp. 377, 440, 534, 599, 662, November, 192o–January, 1921) has shown, is a subject of interest to both the engineer and the physicist. Whatever ...