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Microindentacion en La Medicion de Dureza

Microindentation hardness is a technique used to accurately measure the hardness of mineral surfaces under a microscope. It involves using a static indenter lowered onto the mineral surface under a known load, and determining the size of the resulting impression. Vickers hardness measurement provides a Vickers hardness number by measuring the ratio of the applied load to the contact area of the impression made by a diamond pyramid indenter. The indenter leaves a square-shaped impression with equal diagonals, and the area can be calculated based on the diagonal length. Vickers hardness testing provides a more precise measurement of mineral hardness compared to earlier scratch testing techniques.

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Microindentacion en La Medicion de Dureza

Microindentation hardness is a technique used to accurately measure the hardness of mineral surfaces under a microscope. It involves using a static indenter lowered onto the mineral surface under a known load, and determining the size of the resulting impression. Vickers hardness measurement provides a Vickers hardness number by measuring the ratio of the applied load to the contact area of the impression made by a diamond pyramid indenter. The indenter leaves a square-shaped impression with equal diagonals, and the area can be calculated based on the diagonal length. Vickers hardness testing provides a more precise measurement of mineral hardness compared to earlier scratch testing techniques.

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MICROINDENTACION EN LA MEDICION DE DUREZA

The hardness of an ore mineral has been estimated or measured by mineralogists in one
ofthreeways:through examinationof(1) polishinghardness,(2) scratch hardness, or (3)
microindentation hardness. Polishing hardness, discussed in detail in Chapter 3, only enables
the hardness of a phase to be estimated relative to otherphases in a polishedsection. Scratch
hardness may also be qualitatively estimated by visual examination of the relative intensity of
surface scratches on a polished section (see Chapter 3).The Mohsscale of scratch hardness,
universally employed in the study of minerals in hand specimen, is a simple quantification
ofthis property. Early attempts at measuring mineral hardness under the microscope involved
drawing a scribe across the surface while applying a known load, as in the work ofTalmage
(1925). Such methods have been superseded by the more accurate techniques of
microindentation hardness measurement, in which a static indenter is lowered onto the
mineral surface under a known load and the size of the resulting impression is determined.

6.2 VICKERS HARDNESS MEASUREMENT

6.2.1 Theory

The measurement ofVickers hardness provides a Vickers hardness number (VHN) for a
material. The hardness numberisdefined as the ratio ofthe load appliedtothe indenter(gram or
kilogram force)divided bythe contactarea of the impression (square millimeters). The Vickers
indenter is a square-based diamondpyramidwith a 130° includedangle between
oppositefaces,sothata perfect indentation is seen as a square with equal diagonals (although it
is actually a pyramidal hole of maximum depth one-seventh the diagonal length). The area
ofthe Vickersindentationcan be expressed in terms ofthe length of the diagonal d (in urn) as:

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