Hardness Test Report Format

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I’ve served in 2011–12 in Air Force in Central Russia as a soldier.General life:You basically get up at six o'clock, have 1 hour to get ready for breakfast, i.e. to make a bed, to exercise (was cancelled in winter, but still we did run for 20–30 minutes in T-shirts and pants only during +5C). Then we wash up. Breakfast at seven o'clock, usually some kind of salads, porridge, salami, omelette. Breakfast ends at 7:40 a.m., followed by marching to the main square to run up the flag and listen to the commander of aerodrome at eight o'clock. Then we march back to the barracks. Some go to work on the aerodrome, such as cutting grass, painting something, fixing wire fences. Some may do something for other units, like digging rows, helping with demolishing old buildings on the aerodrome’s territory, working at the supply depot recounting food items, restocking it from new supply, throwing something out. Kind ladies who manage the depots always gave us juices, apples, oranges, or something delicious to cheer us up in our work.Work outdoors was my favorite during summer, actually! Not a lot of things to do after very quickly cutting grass or painting walls — no one watches you. Sometimes we just did some kind of that work and waited until dinner at 1 p.m. — leaning in the grass (in a zone not marked to be cut that day). Back in the barrack we did report to officer on duty upon returning back. It was always like "Oh, we worked so hard there! Almost got late for a dinner!” Aerodrome territory was huge. Some places, I believe, haven't seen a man since the `80s. No one bothered to come and see what we do. Sometimes it took 20 minutes by car to get to the place we were working — or one hour of walking back to barracks, if not more.Dinner: soup of the day, mashed potato/pasta with meat or chicken, salad, boiled eggs sometimes. And a one hour sleeping time then. I was lazy to go to bed and to make it back in perfect formation back after just one hour. But with nothing to do, everyone needs to lie down with closed eyes in bed. A preparation for 24-hours duty with AK-47M then — reading manual on guard duty, answering officer’s question related to it, filling out documents, tests at the open- air Guard plot.Then there was a changing of the guard procedure at six o'clock in the evening at the main square. A 24-hour guard of the armory rotated in groups of three. One is on duty with calls to the position every 15 minutes (point 1 without interruptions); the second guard mans the emergency phone for reports every 15 minutes; the third sleeps for an hour. The guards change every hour: The third, who was sleeping, gets up and goes with a driver to the armory with his AK, the second warrior waits for the first one to return from the armory because he, the second, goes to sleep, and the first one changes with the third, closes him, wishes him a nice sleep (and good luck, of course) and returns with the driver back to the guard’s position. That position is like a fortified area with a house in the middle, and equipped with a kitchen (food is delivered from the canteen; a driver picks it up between his “guard deliveries” to the armory, equipped with a satellite TV (ha-ha!), toilet, wardrobe, sleeping room with a few bed-like sleeping places, and our guard officer is with us, watches TV, talks to us, sleeps at night, whatever. The atmosphere is like, you know, a summer camp, but with AKs and some restrictions on using phone or going outside.24-hour duties are very exhausting. You basically sleep in snatches. Sometimes they organize a Terror attack emergency, a Red alert, whatever. Half night is spent to guard the position in an inside court. I wish, that duties would be switched to 12-h long to increase productivity and shorten recovering time (you are 24 h free of work enjoying your time in barrack after your duty is ended). On a third day after previous Guard duty, you go to the armory again.If soldiers are not on duty, we watch TV in a special room in the barrack, or read some book, or chat with each other. When the time comes to 7 pm, we go to canteen for a supper. In all army, a fish in many varieties is served. A free time in the barrack till 21:30 then. We got a superb gym in the barrack, with all the equipment, with a ping pong table, with a martial arts room, most of free times was spent there. Phones to give a call and check the web were distributed for one hour. They were kept at squadron commander office. Those who were detected with second phones kept in secret needed to nail it to special “cellphone” tree in a yard. There were plenty of phones nailed. Haha. 21:30 - an evening soldiers checklist. Who is on hospital, who is on barrack. A shower for those who didn't get it in a free time then, and other hygienic preparations. Bedtime is 22:00.Maneuvers:Gunfire maneuvers were held every f*****g week. In any weather, in mud with snow, in rain, in fog you get your AK held in your barrack’s arms room and run in your helmets, belly, fire blanks on another groups while getting to your shooting area. When there, you fire on targets. Check your targets then, get points. I was firing well, but other guys with worse physics couldn't get points, what was disturbing for them and officers. There was a joke about them - these soldiers must be good in a close knive combat. Haha!I remember my very first shootings. It was hot as hell in August, we were in forest learning different poses for shootings from 10 a.m. till 3 p.m. Ate true field ration from the those card-boxes, drank from a massive bowel we took with us. I loved that experience.When officers were in a specially bad mood, all the shootings from the beginning were done in a chemical and radiation protection suit, with goggles, respirator etc. This was disgusting, haha!Many fatties lost so much kilos during first months, they needed a new set of clothes. Both huge physical work and a day-to-day menu (each variation for every day) on a special time contribute to that. We rarely went to shops, on duty officers weren't happy to escort us. May be, we went there once in two weeks to stock our personal items, buy some sweets, send/get letters or package in a post office. Some bought cigarettes blocks, some bought goods for gym, or gainers, or some items from chemistry.If someone got ill, there is a hospital in aerodrome. I got there for a month with a quite hard cold. Got frozen on duty during one of those -25C nights. There are other ill soldiers, there is a canteen, a large club room with books and tv, phones were allowed. Each has a room for two. Almost like a club. A summer camp, but everyone is sorta ill. A night nurse went to sleep to her special room circa midnight and we could walk from ward to ward, laugh, chat as much as we wanted It was a relief after standardized life in barrack. There were “serial ill” soldiers who were escaping the service being in the hospital. They could return from there, spend 3–5 days in barrack and say “I feel so awful, I got to get to a hospital!” They weren't treated well in soldiers community either. Stay brave, young man.Bonus track:A unit based near us specializes in cars and everything four wheeled. Those guys were kindly called “masut men” among us, almost white collars. Those fuels, oils were impossible to wash out from hands, nails, clothes, it even occurred on faces, like a tan. What I really liked is their almost freedom of movement - they went to smoke in a yard whenever wanted, returned to barrack after official bedtime, didn't come to main square every morning to hear from commander, didn't report to an officer on duty where they were going (because they were going either to garage or to canteen), didn't need to maintain an official army attire - a jacket tuck in your pants, not hang open, a pants tuck in your boots, not free etc. Overall, those guys knew how to fix anything in four-wheelers and enjoyed that freedom as an appreciation for that knowledge. And everyone of them knew how to swear like a sailor.

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Brinell hardness is determined by forcing a hardened steel or carbide ball of known diameter under a known load into a surface and measuring the diameter of the indentation with a microscope. ... The Shore stereoscope measures hardness in terms of the elasticity of the material.

Since there is no standard hardness scale, each test expresses its results in its unique (and arbitrarily defined) measure. For some metals (such as steel) the hardness and tensile strength are empirically related. Hardness of pliable materials such as plastics and rubbers is measured by instruments such as barometer.

The Rockwell hardness test measures hardness in the simplest way possible: by pressing an indented into the surface of the material with a specific load and then measuring how far the inventor was able to penetrate. Most of the time, the indented is made of either a steel ball or a diamond.

A hardness test is typically performed by pressing a specifically dimensioned and loaded object (indented) into the surface of the material you are testing. The hardness is determined by measuring the depth of indented penetration or by measuring the size of the impression left by an indented.

The most common hardness test is known as the Brinell hardness test, and it measures the resistance to indentation. A metal ball is placed on the casting and then a controlled force will be applied to metal ball. The diameter of the indentation left in the casting is then measured, giving the hardness for the test.