The Vickers hardness testing method is a static type, which follows the ISO 6507, ASTM E92, and ASTM E384 standards. Qualitest offers a full range of top quality, reliable, advanced, and yet affordably priced Macro and Micro Vickers Hardness Testers with extended warranties to the market.

This Vickers method has a test load ranging from 1 gf as per the ISO standards and from 1 gf up to 120 kgf according to the ASTM standards respectively. These standards show that this method can be used to detect hardness for all load ranges from the micro level to the macro level through the low-load level.

It is an optical method, where the size of the indentation left by the indenter is measured to calculate the hardness value of a test sample.

Indenter shape and material type: The indenter is an equilateral pyramid including a square base made of diamond with a plane angle of 136 degrees.