Definition of Brinell number

1. Noun. Measure of the hardness of a material.

Generic synonyms: Unit, Unit Of Measurement

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brinell Number

Brigid
Brigit
Brigit Nilsson
Brigitte Bardot
Brignac
Brignacs
Brihaspati
Brill
Brill's disease
Brill-Symmers disease
Brill-Zinsser disease
Brimacombe fragment
Brindisi
Brinell
Brinell hardness number
Brinell number (current term)
Brinjaree
Brinjarees
Brinton
Brioschi
Briquet
Briquet's ataxia
Briquet's disease
Briquet's syndrome
Bris
Brisbane
Brisbane quandong
Brisbanian
Brisbanite
Brisbanites

Literary usage of Brinell number

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Making, Shaping and Treating of Steel by James McIntyre Camp, Charles Blaine Francis (1920)
"Relation of Brinell number to Tensile Strength: It is both a curious and a significant fact that the Brinell hardness number bears a close relation to the ..."

2. Materials of Construction: Their Manufacture and Properties by Adelbert Philo Mills, Harrison Washburn Hayward (1922)
"If the Brinell number is multiplied by 500 to 520 a very close approximation of the tensile ... For ordinary steels the Brinell number is approximately the ..."

3. Metallography by Samuel Leslie Hoyt (1920)
"... number and the corrected Brinell number, brings out the deficiency of the elastic rebound method to measure "hardness." In fact the small difference in ..."

4. Aircraft and Automobile Materials of Construction by Arthur William Judge (1920)
"... similar to Table XXXVI., with Brinell instruments, in which the Brinell number is given for the various values of D, the diameter of the impression, ..."

5. Steel Thermal Treatment, by John W. Urquhart (1922)
"The hardness may, for example, correspond to a Brinell number of 500 if the temperature before hammering was 1832°F. (1000°C.), and to Brinell number of ..."

6. Steel and Its Heat Treatment by Denison Kingsley Bullens (1916)
"It is the author's experience that this method is fairly accurate, and that the Brinell number will give a close approximation of the true tensile strength ..."

7. The Testing of Materials of Construction: A Text-book for the Engineering by William Cawthorne Unwin (1910)
"If H is calculated in Ibs. per sq. in. it is converted into the Brinell number by multiplying by 0'000703. With iron and steel Brinell used balls of 10 mm. ..."

8. Transactions by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1916)
"Each individual shaft is then put under the brinell hardness machine, and its Brinell number read at the ends and the middle of the bar. ..."

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