<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hello Vinayak,<br><br></div>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.)<br><br> 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. <br><br></div>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!<br><br><a href="https://www.york.ac.uk/biology/research/biochemistry-biophysics/john-d-currey/">https://www.york.ac.uk/biology/research/biochemistry-biophysics/john-d-currey/</a><br><br></div>Best of luck with your project,<br></div>Amy<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 9:34 AM, vinayak vinayak <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vinayakinramjas@yahoo.co.in" target="_blank">vinayakinramjas@yahoo.co.in</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,Sans-Serif;font-size:14px"><div>Dear Everyone </div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">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. </div><div dir="ltr"> 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. </div><div dir="ltr"> 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.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Regards </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">VINAYAK</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Ph.D Student</div><div dir="ltr">Centre for Historical Studies</div><div dir="ltr">School of Social Sciences </div><div dir="ltr">Jawaharlal Nehru University</div><div dir="ltr">Delhi</div><div dir="ltr">India 110067. </div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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