Experimental Researches on Relation between Martens Hardness and Traditional Mechanical Properties

Abstract

For finding the relation between Martens hardness and Vickers hardness, Rockwell hardness, tensile strength, yield strength, research are done on carbon alloy steel by experiment, linear regression analysis and derivation of equation .Martens hardness, Vickers hardness and Rockwell hardness of 30 samples which contains 3 material and 10 hardness levels are tested by ZHU 2.5 hardness tester. On the basis of 180 groups of data obtained and analyzed from instrumented indentation experiments, mathematic model between Martens hardness and Vickers hardness is established, by linear regression analysis. And mathematic model between Martens hardness and Rockwell hardness, tensile strength, yield strength is established on that basis. By means of comparing the value calculated by the mathematic model and obtained from tensile test using Electronic universal testing machine, the accuracy of the mathematic model is verified. The result show that the relative error of the four mathematics models which established in this test is below 5%, and the four mathematics models can be applied to the practical engineering application.