Facilities
Microhardness Tester | |
| Contact: | 1. Pete Teertstra (519 888-4567 x35610 or Email) |
| 2. Rick Culham (519 888-4567 x33839 or Email) | |
| Location: | Engineering 3, Room 2117 |
Description: |
The Shimadzu Bench-Type Microhardness Tester is a semi-automatic hardness tester fitted with a Vickers pyramidal indenter with 11 preset indenter loads between 5 and 2000 g. The loading is fully automatic and the loads can be placed on the indenter for a period ranging from 5 to 60 s. |
The LECO DM400LF Bench-Type Microhardness Tester (shown) is a manually-operated device with nine-preset indenter loads between 15 and 2000 g. The test bed also allows heated specimens, up to 200 oC, to be tested.
Microelectronics Heat Transfer Laboratory
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
PH: 519 888 4586 or 519 888 4567 x33839
FAX: 519 746 9141
http://www.mhtlab.uwaterloo.ca