Category Archives: Rockwell Hardness

Testing to Industry Standards

posted April 2019

MEE has years of experience in interpreting and conducting tests per industry standards in order to provide our clients with reliable results. We have a select list of standards we test to posted on our website. Since we recently added a Brinell Hardness Tester to our laboratory services we added two more ASTM standards to the list.

ASTM E10 Standard Test Method for Brinell Hardness of Metallic Materials

ASTM E110 Standard Test Method for Rockwell and Brinell Hardness by Portable Hardness Testers

The list on our website is by no means all inclusive. If you don’t see the test method you require, contact us.

Filed under: ASTM Standards, Brinell Hardness, Rockwell Hardness,

Mentoring Materials Science Students

posted June 2018

Last Thursday we hosted thirty high school students at MEE as part of a week-long Materials Science Camp sponsored by the MN Chapter of ASM International. Under the direction of industry and academic based “Materials Mentors”, students learned about the process of running a failure analysis investigation. MEE provided a space for the students to get hands on experience with sample preparation, Rockwell hardness testing, light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy.

Three of our staff, Larry Hanke, Kurt Schenk and Neal Hanke, were camp mentors. This was MEE’s twelfth year sponsoring the camp.

Filed under: About MEE, Failure Analysis, Materials Science Engineers, Materials testing laboratory, Microhardness Testing, microscopy, Rockwell Hardness, scanning electron microscope,

Materials Science Camp 2016

posted June 2016

Thirty high school students spent a day at MEE as part of a week-long Materials Science Camp sponsored by the MN Chapter of ASM International. Under the direction of industry and education based “Materials Mentors”, students got hands-on experience solving a materials failure analysis project. Three on our staff, Larry Hanke, Kurt Schenk and Neal Hanke, were camp mentors. This was MEE’s tenth year sponsoring the camp.

Shown in the pictures below are students preparing samples in the metallographic lab, viewing samples in the SEM, performing Rockwell hardness testing and consulting ASM handbooks in the library. On the last day of camp they presented a report on the possible root cause of the failure with recommendations for solutions to the problem.