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HARDNESS TESTERS AND MEASURING SYSTEMS

ATI – AFFRI TESTING INSTRUMENTS SRL

Discover ATI Affri Testing Instruments, a leader in hardness testers and hardness testing instruments. With a wide range of innovative products and guaranteed precision, ATI offers solutions for testing the hardness of metallic and non-metallic materials. Our instruments are designed to meet the needs of various industries, from manufacturing to automotive, ensuring accurate and reliable results. Choose ATI for quality and dependability in your hardness testing. Visit our website to explore our offerings and contact us for more information.

UNDERSTANDING MATERIAL HARDNESS TESTING

Hardness testers are precision instruments designed to measure the hardness of a material. Hardness is a fundamental property of a material that can vary depending on several factors, primarily the compactness and structure of the material. For instance, the hardness of steel can be altered through heat treatment processes, such as quenching. Quenching involves heating the metal to a high temperature and then rapidly cooling it, which causes the internal structure to change and become more compact, resulting in increased hardness. Conversely, if steel is heated and cooled slowly, its hardness decreases.

The hardness value of a material can also provide insights into other important properties, such as tensile strength. By measuring hardness, one can infer the material’s ability to withstand deformation or failure under stress. There are various methods for measuring hardness, each based on distinct principles: Brinell, Vickers, Knoop, Rockwell, Shore, and IRHD. Despite the differences in techniques, all methods follow the same basic principle: pressing a hard indenter into the material and measuring the extent of penetration. Each hardness testing method has its own procedure, which is governed by international standards.

HARDNESS TESTING STANDARDS

Rockwell	ISO 6508	ASMT E18
Brinell	ISO 6506	ASTM E10 (HBW) ASTM E103 (HBTW)
Vickers / Knoop	ISO 6507	ASTM E92 (F>1kg) ASTM E384 (F<1kg)
Shore	ISO 868 DIN ISO 7619	ASTM D2240 ASTM D1414 (O-Ring)
IRHD	ISO 48	ASTM D1415 ASTM D1414 (O-Ring)
Rockwell (Plastic)	ISO 2039-1 ISO 2039-2	ASTM E110 ASTM E3246
Portables	DIN 50157	ASTM E110 ASTM E3246

These standards ensure consistency and reliability across testing procedures worldwide, allowing for accurate and comparable results. ATI offers comprehensive testing and calibration services for all types of hardness measurements, ensuring that your instruments meet the highest global standards. Our expertise and ISO 17025 accreditation provide you with confidence in the accuracy and quality of your testing processes.

ATI is Affri Testing Instruments: Precision and Reliability for Every Need

ATI is PRECISION and RELIABILITY for every need

ATI’s new line of hardness testers represents the evolution of technology and expertise. Designed for demanding daily use both in industrial settings and laboratories, our range of ATI durometers covers a wide array of hardness tests, including Rockwell, Brinell, Vickers, IRHD, and SHORE. These instruments offer exceptional performance and precision, guaranteed by our ATI Calibration Center, accredited to ISO/IEC 17025 standards with ILAC MRA certification. This ensures the highest level of accuracy, quality, and long-term service reliability. ATI provides certified, lifetime support for your durometer, ensuring continuous, reliable operation throughout its lifespan. We are also an accredited laboratory for the entire hardness testing chain, offering certifications for both machines and specimens (test samples) used in hardness testing. Our services extend beyond hardness, as we also certify forces for material testing machines (tensile, compression, torsion) and dimensional measurements.

As your trusted partner, ATI is committed to supporting you throughout your quality assurance journey. Our experienced technicians are available to advise you on the best solutions and products tailored to your specific needs, ensuring continuity and reliability over time. Our laboratory is equipped to perform verifications and certifications for all hardness scales and hardness testers, offering you comprehensive support in achieving precision and quality across your testing processes.

Trust us: ATI Affri Testing Instruments is the best choice for premium hardness testing materials and certified calibration services, ensuring top performance and reliability.

Why ATI Affri Testing Instruments is the best choice

ATI is solutions for NADCAP accreditation: we are expert in maintenance, repair, and certified calibration services ISO 17025 accredited, offering direct and indirect solutions for Rockwell , Brinell , Vickers , Shore scales, optical systems, forces, tension, compression and torsion.

ATI is trusted partner: we offer new ILAC MRA ISO 17025 accredited hardness calibration masters test blocks, including high-precision Rockwell, Brinell, and Vickers, for the daily verification of your quality.

ATI is trusted partner: we provide consulting for the selection of hardness testers for laboratory use, production lines, and robotic applications.

ATI is your consultancy partner: we help you to provide the best technical solution for your needs with a wide range of hardness testers as AFFRI, EASYDUR and many others brands with a wide range of Rockwell, Brinell, Vickers, Shore, and IRHD hardness testers.

ATI is your consultancy partner: we assist you in selecting microscopes, metallographic structural analysis software, and particulate analysis tools.

ATI offers material structural analysis solutions with a wide range of microscopes and metallographic analysis software, as well as particulate analysis tools.

ATI is your maintenance service to keep your equipment always efficient, offering certified and accredited calibration services ANAB ILAC MRA ISO 17025 traceable to N.I.S.T., in compliance with ASTM E10 / ASTM E384 / ASTM E18 / ASTM E92 / ISO 6506 / ISO 6507 / ISO 6508 / ISO 48 standards.

ATI also provides certified ILAC MRA calibration masters and spare parts compliant with ASTM and ISO standards to ensure your equipment remains efficient and accurate on a daily basis.