摘要 |
The invention relates to a method of determining the hardening quality of a hardened metal machine-component, more specifically a geared element, the method comprising: - removing a first quantity of material from the hardened metal machine-component to a first depth; - determining a first hardness value representative of the hardness of the material at the first depth; - removing a further quantity of material from the hardened metal machine-component to a further depth, different from the first depth; - determining a further hardness value representative of the hardness of the material at the further depth; - determining from the hardness values representative of the hardness at the different depth a measure representative of the hardening quality of the hardened metal machine-component. |