Effects of H2SO4, GA3, and cold stratification on the water content, coat composition, and dormancy release of Tilia miqueliana seeds by Yu Wu, Yu Wu, Wen Hui Huang, Wen Hui Huang, Chen Yin Peng, Chen Yin Peng, Yong Bao Shen, Yong Bao Shen, Anne M. Visscher, Hugh W. Pritchard, Hugh W. Pritchard, Qiu Gao, Xiao Rui Sun, Ming Zhu Wang, Zhiyun Deng, Zhiyun Deng

“…During the cold stratification period, the cellular structure was damaged and an increasing number of holes appeared on the inner and outer surfaces of the seed coat. Vickers hardness tests showed that GA3 decreased the seed coat hardness. …”
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Assessing the influence of cyclic bending on pearlitic wire's microstructural evolution: a simulation of spiraling and armoring processing effects by Pedro Henrique Pinheiro Lima, Samille Krycia Bezerra de Lima, Maria Veronica Goncalves Rodrigues, Luis Flavio Gaspar Herculano, Rodrigo Carvalho de Paes Loureiro, Suyanny Assunção Freire, Jorge Luiz Cardoso, Mohammad Masoumi, Gedeon Silva Reis, Eden Santos Silva, Samuel Filgueiras Rodrigues, Hamilton Ferreira Gomes de Abreu

“…Specimens were submitted to the Vickers microhardness and tensile tests to evaluate the mechanical properties. …”
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Comparative Evaluation of TiO₂ Nanoparticle Addition and Postcuring Time on the Flexural Properties and Hardness of Additively Fabricated Denture Base Resins by Maram A. AlGhamdi, Shaimaa M. Fouda, Noha Taymour, Sultan Akhtar, Soban Q. Khan, Mohamed S. Ali, Ahmed M. Elakel, Essam A. Nassar, Mohammed M. Gad

“…All the specimens were subjected to artificial aging (5000 cycles), followed by testing of the flexural strength and elastic modulus using a universal testing machine, and the hardness using the Vickers hardness test. A three-way ANOVA was used for the data analysis, and a post hoc Tukey’s test was used for the pairwise comparisons (α = 0.05). …”
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An SPS-RS Technique for the Fabrication of SrMoO₄ Powellite Mineral-like Ceramics for ⁹⁰Sr Immobilization by Anton A. Belov, Oleg O. Shichalin, Evgeniy K. Papynov, Igor Yu. Buravlev, Arseniy S. Portnyagin, Semen A. Azon, Alexander N. Fedorets, Anastasia A. Vornovskikh, Erhan S. Kolodeznikov, Ekaterina A. Gridasova, Anton Pogodaev, Nikolay B. Kondrikov, Yun Shi, Ivan G. Tananaev

“…The temperature conditions for SrMoO₄ formation under SPS were determined, yielding ceramics with a relative density of 84.0–96.3%, Vickers microhardness of 157–295 HV, and compressive strength of 54–331 MPa. …”
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Influence of Varying Concentrations of Epoxy, Rice Husk, Al₂O₃, and Fe₂O₃ on the Properties of Brake Friction Materials Prepared Using H... by Agustinus Purna Irawan, Deni Fajar Fitriyana, Januar Parlaungan Siregar, Tezara Cionita, Paula Tjatoerwidya Anggarina, Didi Widya Utama, Teuku Rihayat, Rusiyanto Rusiyanto, Saeful Dimyati, Muhammad Bustanul Aripin, Rifky Ismail, Athanasius Priharyoto Bayuseno, Gregorius Dimas Baskara, Muhammad Khafidh, Finny Pratama Putera, Rahmadi Yotenka

“…On the other hand, the density, hardness, flexural strength, flexural modulus, and wear rate values of this specimen were 1.23 g/cm³, 81.2 Vickers (HV), 57.24 MPa, 4.08 GPa, and 8.665 × 10⁻⁷ mm²/kg. …”
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Effect of Cu Content on the Precipitation Behaviors, Mechanical and Corrosion Properties of As-Cast Ti-Cu Alloys by Zhe Wang, Binguo Fu, Yufeng Wang, Tianshun Dong, Jingkun Li, Guolu Li, Xuebo Zhao, Jinhai Liu, Guixian Zhang

“…The tensile strength, Vickers hardness and Young’s modulus of the Ti-Cu alloys increase with the increase of Cu content, whereas the elongation decreases. …”
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Surface Properties of Polymer Resins Fabricated with Subtractive and Additive Manufacturing Techniques by Amal S. Al-Qahtani, Huda I. Tulbah, Mashael Binhasan, Maria S. Abbasi, Naseer Ahmed, Sara Shabib, Imran Farooq, Nada Aldahian, Sidra S. Nisar, Syeda A. Tanveer, Fahim Vohra, Tariq Abduljabbar

“…Three indentations for Vickers micro-hardness (VHN) were performed on each disk and an average was identified for each specimen. …”
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Hybrid Sol–Gel and Spark Plasma Sintering to Produce Perovskite-like SrTiO₃ Ceramics for Radioactive Waste Isolation by Anton A. Belov, Oleg O. Shichalin, Evgeniy K. Papynov, Igor Yu. Buravlev, Erhan S. Kolodeznikov, Olesya V. Kapustina, Semen A. Azon, Nikolay B. Kondrikov, Alexander N. Fedorets, Ivan G. Tananaev

“…Physicochemical characteristic studies included density measurement results (3.11–4.80 g·cm⁻³), dilatometric dependencies, Vickers microhardness (20–900 HV), and hydrolytic stability (10⁻⁶–10⁻⁷ g·cm⁻²·day⁻²), exceeding GOST R 50926-96 and ISO 6961:1982 requirements for solid-state matrices. …”
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A novel approach for rice straw agricultural waste utilization: Synthesis of solid aluminosilicate matrices for cesium immobilization by A.E. Panasenko, O.O. Shichalin, S.B. Yarusova, A.I. Ivanets, A.A. Belov, A.N. Dran'kov, S.A. Azon, A.N. Fedorets, I. Yu Buravlev, V. Yu Mayorov, D. Kh Shlyk, A.A. Buravleva, E.B. Merkulov, N.V. Zarubina, E.K. Papynov

“…Glass ceramics RS-(K,Cs)AlSi3O8 obtained by the SPS method at 1000 °C for 5 min was characterized by a high density of ∼2.62 g/cm3, Vickers hardness ∼ 2.1 GPa, compressive strength ∼231.3 MPa and the rate of cesium ions leaching of ∼1.37 × 10−7 g cm−2·day−1. …”
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Effect of Si content on the microstructure and mechanical properties of 9Cr-ferritic/martensitic steels by G.J. Zhang, Y. Zhou, J.F. Yang, H.Y. Yang, M.M. Wang, K. Jing, Z.M. Xie, L.C. Zhang, R. Liu, G. Li, H. Wang, L. Li, Q.F. Fang, X.P. Wang

“…Their microstructure and mechanical properties were characterized using OM, SEM, TEM, Vickers hardness tester and tensile tester. The steel has a typical ferrite/martensitic structure, with M23C6 and MX phases precipitated at the martensite lath boundary or in the lath. …”
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Effect of Various Concentrations of Sodium Hypochlorite on the Microhardness of Bulkfill Restorative Composite Resin used as a Pre-endodontic Restoration by Anuradha Patil, Priyanka Sangle, MV Sumanthini, Tanvi Satpute, Divya Naik, Antara Ghosh

“…The bulkfill composite resin discs were randomly divided into four main groups, group 1 (distilled water), group 2 (1% NaOCl), group 3 (3% NaOCl), and group 4 (5% NaOCl), with eight samples in each group. Baseline Vickers hardness testing was performed for each group using a 100 gram load and a dwell time of 10 seconds before being immersed in the irrigation solution. …”
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Development, In-Vitro Characterization and In-Vivo Osteoinductive Efficacy of a Novel Biomimetically-Precipitated Nanocrystalline Calcium Phosphate With Internally-Incorporated Bon... by Gaoli Xu, Gaoli Xu, Chenxi Shen, Chenxi Shen, Haiyan Lin, Haiyan Lin, Jian Zhou, Ting Wang, Ben Wan, Ben Wan, Munerah Binshabaib, Tymour Forouzanfar, Guochao Xu, Nawal Alharbi, Gang Wu, Gang Wu

“…In-vitro characterization data showed that the BpNcCaP + BMP-2 granules were comprised of hexagonal hydroxyapatite with an average crystallite size ranging from 19.7 to 25.1 nm and a grain size at 84.13 ± 28.46 nm. The vickers hardness of BpNcCaP was 32.50 ± 3.58 HV 0.025. …”
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Gibbs Adsorption and Zener Pinning Enable Mechanically Robust High‐Performance Bi2Te3‐Based Thermoelectric Devices by Chaohua Zhang, Qiangwen Lai, Wu Wang, Xuyang Zhou, Kailiang Lan, Lipeng Hu, Bowen Cai, Matthias Wuttig, Jiaqing He, Fusheng Liu, Yuan Yu

“…These effects result in much‐refined grain size and twofold enhancement of the compressive strength and Vickers hardness in (Bi0.5Sb1.5Te3)0.97(MgB2)0.03 compared with that of traditional powder‐metallurgy‐derived Bi0.5Sb1.5Te3. …”
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Optimization on hardening process parameters of alumnium alloy 7075 based composites using gra approach by Ashok Raj R, Santhosh Prakash A, Antony Prabu D, Vijayan S

“…The microhardness and wear resistance of these composites were assessed using a Vickers hardness tester and a Pin-on-Disc testing apparatus. …”
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Biodegradable magnesium pins enhanced the healing of transverse patellar fracture in rabbits by Dick Ho Kiu Chow, Jiali Wang, Peng Wan, Lizhen Zheng, Michael Tim Yun Ong, Le Huang, Wenxue Tong, Lili Tan, Ke Yang, Ling Qin

“…Microindentation showed that, compared to the Control group, Mg group showed 49.9% higher Vickers hardness and 31% higher elastic modulus at week 8 and 12, respectively. …”
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A comprehensive and comparative study of microstructure and mechanical properties for post-process heat treatment of AlSi7Mg alloy components fabricated in different laser powder b... by V.A. Medrano, E. Arrieta, J. Merino, B. Ruvalcaba, K. Caballero, B. Ramirez, J. Diemann, L.E. Murr, R.B. Wicker, D. Godfrey, M. Benedict, F. Medina

“…While the yield stress (YS), elongation (%), and Vickers microindentation hardness (HV) were somewhat different for the as-built components, the general trends for the different heat treatments were essentially the same. …”
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Effects of Bio-Aging on Mechanical Properties and Microbial Behavior of Different Resin Composites by Yuke Shou, Lanzhi Deng, Xiaoyu Huang, Xinyu Peng, Xinxuan Zhou, Zheng Wang, Yannan Huang, Bina Yang, Haohao Wang, Min Zhang, Lei Cheng

“…However, a decrease in flexural strength in all groups was observed (<i>p</i> < 0.05), except for the nanoflow composite group (<i>p</i> > 0.05). The Vickers hardness remained stable in all groups after aging (<i>p</i> > 0.05), except for the nano-filled group (<i>p</i> < 0.05). …”
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Characterization of the untreated, stress relieve and t6 heat treated aluminium alloy alsi10mg formed by selective laser melting (slm) technique by Chuang, Huei Deng

“…In addition to that, micro-hardness of the samples is tested using Vicker’s hardness test. The result shows similar pattern at which the SLM fabricated samples have much higher hardness value as compared to casted samples, though the stress relieve and T6 heat treatment do not produce significant effect on the micro-hardness value of the samples. …”
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Improving the safety and reliability of reactor pressure vessel steels by Jenkins, B

“…</p> <p>To study the effect that composition has on RPV steel response to thermal ageing, 19 alloys with systematic variations in the levels of Cu, Ni, Mn, Si, and P levels were thermally-aged at 330°C,365°C, and 405°C for over 30,000 hours. Results from Vickers hardness tests revealed that an alloy containing 0.3 at.% Cu displayed a significant increase in hardness; atom probe tomography(APT) experiments revealed Cu-rich precipitate formation in the matrix and at heterogeneous nucleation sites. …”

Characterisation and mechanical properties of bulk nanostrictured Al-based composites for high temperature applications by Pedrazzini, S

“…</p> <p>Mechanical properties at room temperature were tested by Vickers microhardness, quasi-static tensile tests, dynamic tensile tests and dynamic compression tests. …”