Adolf Martens was a German mechanical and metallurgical engineer who advanced the systematic testing and microscopic study of metals. As a founding figure of German materials-testing institutions, he developed instruments and standardized methods for measuring the strength, hardness and structure of steel and other metals used in engineering, building on Sorby's metallographic techniques to make microstructural analysis a routine industrial practice. The hard, needle-like microstructure that forms when steel is rapidly cooled, martensite, and the associated Martens hardness test are named after him in recognition of his contributions to metallurgical engineering. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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He directed a Berlin materials testing station from 1884.
In 1884 Martens was appointed director of the Mechanisch-Technische Versuchsanstalt, the testing station associated with the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg. According to the Dictionary of Scientific Biography entry, it became the Royal Material-Prüfungsamt of Berlin-Dahlem in 1903.
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Adolf Martens (Adolf Karl Gottfried Martens; 6 March 1850 in Gammelin – 24 July 1914 in Groß-Lichterfelde) was a German metallurgist and the namesake of the steel structure martensite and the martensitic transformation, a type of diffusionless phase transition in the solid state.
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Adolf Martens (Adolf Karl Gottfried Martens; 6 March 1850 in Gammelin, 24 July 1914 in Groß-Lichterfelde) was a German metallurgist and the namesake of the steel structure martensite and the martensitic transformation, a type of diffusionless phase transition in the solid state.
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Adolf Martens (Adolf Karl Gottfried Martens; 6 March 1850 in Gammelin, 24 July 1914 in Groß-Lichterfelde) was a German metallurgist and the namesake of the steel structure martensite and the martensitic transformation, a type of diffusionless phase transition in the solid state.
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