Shore, n.5 Metallurgy.
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The name of Albert F. Shore (fl. 1907), U.S. manufacturer, used attrib. with reference to the Scleroscope he invented and to a scale of relative hardness associated with the use of this instrument, as Shore hardness, Shore Scleroscope, Shore test, etc.
| 1908 Iron Age LXXXII. 555 (heading) The Shore Scleroscope. 1908 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. LXXVIII. 639 Maurer also gives an account of his investigations on the Shore hardness test. 1924 Jeffries & Archer Sci. of Metals i. 21 The Shore numbers are more representative of the yield point than of the tensile strength. 1937 R. T. Rolfe Steels for User vi. 110 Thus a Brinell hardness of 131 should be equivalent to a Shore figure of..22, which is the same as the Shore hardness determined. 1967 E. Chambers Photolitho-Offset xv. 226 The Shore hardness of the rubber stock should be between 8 to 16. 1979 J. Neely Pract. Metall. & Materials of Industry vi. 71/2 Elastic hardness is measured by an instrument called a Shore Scleroscope. |