1. Colourblast Paint Company
You are contracted by the Colourblast Paint Company Pty Ltd to test a new product they are
developing that produces a very mechanically tough and hard paint finish. Once applied
onto a surface, the paint begins to dry and harden, and your job is to use the mechanical
indenters in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Monash to test the
hardness of the setting paint as a function of time to estimate the ultimate, fully cured
hardness of their product.The file -paintdata.txt” can be found in the question below. It
contains two columns of data, the first being time in minutes since application and the
second being the measured Vickers hardness in units of HV. Import the datafile from the
question below and answer the following questions: