Equotip Hardness Testing: How the Leeb Rebound Principle Works

Close-up of an Equotip Leeb hardness tester probe positioned on a steel component prior to portable hardness testing.

Hardness testing measures a material’s resistance to permanent deformation. It is often carried out in a laboratory on static machinery (see our Hardness Scales blog post for more detail), but this places limits on what can be tested: the size and shape of the specimen, and whether it can be shipped to the test location […]