National foreword

This British Standard is the UK implementation of EN ISO 6508‑1:2023. It is identical to ISO 6508‑1:2023. It supersedes BS EN ISO 6508‑1:2016, which is withdrawn.

The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee ISE/101/5, Indentation hardness testing.

A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to its committee manager.

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Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunity from legal obligations.

This British Standard was published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 31 January 2024.

Foreword

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This document was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 164, Mechanical testing of metals, Subcommittee SC 3, Hardness testing, in collaboration with the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) Technical Committee CEN/TC 459, ECISS - European Committee for Iron and Steel Standardization, in accordance with the Agreement on technical cooperation between ISO and CEN (Vienna Agreement).

This fifth edition cancels and replaces the fourth edition (ISO 6508‑1:2016), which has been technically revised.

The main changes are as follows:

removal of note related to the use of tungsten and steel ball indenters (Clause 1);
removal of the year from the Normative References specified and various places throughout the body of the standard (Clause 2);
addition of Clause 3, Terms and definitions;
added additional information for the use of single-piece spherically tipped indenters (6.3 NOTE 1);
added the table reference and table title (7.4);
modified the uncertainty of the results section to only provide a single reference for the determination of uncertainty (Clause 9);
modified Annex G to remove the “procedure without bias (M2)” method for determining uncertainty.

A list of all parts in the ISO 6508 series can be found on the ISO website.

Any feedback or questions on this document should be directed to the user’s national standards body. A complete listing of these bodies can be found at www.iso.org/members.html.

This European Standard was approved by CEN on 13 November 2023.

CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre or to any CEN member.

This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation under the responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the same status as the official versions.

CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and United Kingdom.

European foreword

This document (EN ISO 6508‑1:2023) has been prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 164 "Mechanical testing of metals" in collaboration with Technical Committee CEN/TC 459/SC 1 “Test methods for steel (other than chemical analysis)” the secretariat of which is held by AFNOR.

This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by June 2024, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by June 2024.

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CEN shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

This document supersedes EN ISO 6508‑1:2016.

Any feedback and questions on this document should be directed to the users’ national standards body/national committee. A complete listing of these bodies can be found on the CEN website.

According to the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organizations of the following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and the United Kingdom.

Endorsement notice

The text of ISO 6508‑1:2023 has been approved by CEN as EN ISO 6508‑1:2023 without any modification.

1 Scope

This document specifies the method for Rockwell regular and Rockwell superficial hardness tests for scales A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, K, 15N, 30N, 45N, 15T, 30T, and 45T for metallic materials and is applicable to stationary and portable hardness testing machines.

For specific materials and/or products, other specific International Standards apply (e.g. ISO 3738‑1 and ISO 4498).

2 Normative references

3 Terms and definitions

4 Symbols, abbreviated terms and designations

5 Rockwell hardness

5.1

5.2

6 Testing machine

6.1

6.2

6.3

7 Test piece

7.1

7.2

7.3

7.4

8 Procedure

8.1

8.2

8.3

8.4

8.5

8.6

8.7

8.8

8.9

8.10

8.11

8.12

8.13

9 Uncertainty of the results

10 Test report

11 Conversions to other hardness scales or tensile strength values

Bibliography

BS EN ISO 6508-1:2023

Metallic materials. Rockwell hardness test - Test method

Current

Published:

31 Jan 2024