Cutting Data for Turning of Steel

Appendix 1: Hardness Conversion

Tables 1.1 - 1.5. Brinell hardness at 3000-kgf load converted from Brinell hardness at 500-kgf load

Tables 1.6 - 1.11. Brinell hardness at 3000-kgf load converted from Rockwell B hardness

Tables 1.12 - 1.19. Brinell hardness at 3000-kgf load converted from Rockwell C hardness

Tables 1.20 - 1.26. Vickers hardness at 10-kgf load converted from Rockwell A hardness

Table 1.1: Conversion of Brinell hardness numbers at 500-kgf load (HB 5) into 3000-kgf load (HB 3)

Linear regression formula for calculating Brinell hardness at 3000-kgf load: HB C = 1.138 x HB 5 - 1.052

Brinell hardness numbers

Accuracy in calculating HB C %

HB 5 x HB 3

(HB5) 2

(HB3) 2

Parameters of the regression line

Correlation coefficient

500-kgf load HB 5

3000-kgf load

actual HB 3

calculated HB C

slope

intercept

89

100

100

100

8900

7921

10000

1.138

-1.052

0.9962

90

101

101

100

9090

8100

10201

91

103

102.5

99.5

9373

8281

10609

92

104

104

100

9568

8464

10816

94

106

106

100

9964

8836

11236

95

107

107

100

10165

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