[Bonetools] Hardness Testing Machine

[Margaris, Amy V.]

Hello Vinayak,

I have done bone/antler materials testing using small, standardized bone
samples using a very fancy and precise Materials Testing System (MTS) (also
called a Universal Testing Machine) instrument that a faculty member in an
orthopaedics/biomedical engineering lab kindly made available to me. (See
attached for some details, although I was testing strength and not
hardness.)

 I could never have afforded the equipment myself but it benefited the
faculty member -- probably from a grants perspective -- to have the
equipment see wide use.  Perhaps someone at your university who works on
ceramics or biomaterials would similarly be willing to give you some
equipment time?  I paid a relatively small sum to have a special part
machined for anchoring my samples in the MTS instrument, and donated the
part to this scientist's lab when my research was complete.  I'd like to
think that helped compensate for the equipment and training time he
provided.

Retired U. of York biology professor John Currey is the king of bone
testing.  You may find help in one of his articles or even by contacting
him in person.  He's really lovely!

https://www.york.ac.uk/biology/research/biochemistry-biophysics/john-d-currey/

Best of luck with your project,
Amy

On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 9:34 AM, vinayak vinayak <
vinayakinramjas at yahoo.co.in> wrote:

> Dear Everyone
>
> These days I am working on mechanical properties of bone objects. In this
> regard I want to conduct few mechanical test on my samples to know their
> elasticity and hardness. But I could not find out an right machines to know
> the hardness of my samples.
>     Portable Hardness Tester (use for Metal Testing), Bench Mounted
> Brinell Hardness Test Machine and Shore 'D' Hardness Tester were already
> used by me to know the hardness of samples but I could not get satisfactory
> results from these machines.
>      Thus, if anybody have an idea about right hardness testing machine
> for testing bone samples than please let me know. Moreover, if the machine
> is also available less than $400, I can also buy it.
>
> Regards
>
> VINAYAK
>
> Ph.D Student
> Centre for Historical Studies
> School of Social Sciences
> Jawaharlal Nehru University
> Delhi
> India 110067.
>
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-- 
Amy V. Margaris
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Oberlin College

On Research Leave AY 2015-16


https://oberlin.academia.edu/AmyMargaris

http://new.oberlin.edu/arts-and-sciences/departments/anthropology/
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