Johan August Brinell
August Brinell (21 November 1849 – 17 November 1925) was a Swedish Mechanical Engineer.
Brinell is noted as the creator of a method for quantifying the surface hardness of materials, now known as the Brinell hardness test. His name is also commemorated in the description of a failure mechanism of material surfaces known as Brinelling.
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