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THE indentation test, made by forcing an unde-formable ball into the test piece, of which the Brinell test is the most extended form, is governed by an empirical relation between load and diameter, P = a dn, due to Meyer.
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JIMENO, E., TERRAZA, J. The Meyer Law for Hardness Tests. Nature 166, 359 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/166359a0
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