3rd Hardening Evening 2023/2024 with presentation by Mr. Manfred Tietze, Benjamin Lerach, Institut Dr. Förster GmbH & Co. KG, Reutlingen "Mobile hardness testing in the manufacturing industry"

The presentation will briefly compare the two physical methods Leeb and UCI with their ranges and the relation to the classic hardness measurement according to Vickers. Some applications will then be discussed in detail. The focus will be on applications of the UCI method, which offers far more possibilities for solving problems in the metal sector. These include small or complex shaped components and, more recently, NFe materials such as aluminum parts, which in the past could only be solved with the introduction of SonoDur3 due to limitations in the use of Leeb testers (size, thickness) and lack of adaptability of other UCI testers through adjustment. Other topics range from sheet metal after heat treatment, thin automotive sheet metal (1.4 mm thickness) and thin metallic coatings to the testing of aircraft turbine parts in the maintenance and repair sector.