A car accident expert is assigned to a case where the insurancecompany suspects the car company to use lower quality steel (lowerTS) than the standards in their bumpers. The expert is given apost-crash bumper to run his test on. Since the bumper iscompletely deformed, he cannot place it into the normal bumpertensile tester. He is thinking about running a hardness test on thedeformed bumper to estimate the TS of the steel to test theinsurance company's theory. Do you think his method is acceptable?why?
