EFFECT OF THE DEPTH OF FACE ON THE BALLISTIC LIMIT OF PLURAMELT LIGHT ARMOR

Abstract

For the past three years, the Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation has been producing face hardened light armor by their "Pluramelt" process. This process consists of building up a metallic layer on a base metal by an electric arc. The Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation rolls ingots of low carbon-nickel-molybdenumsteal into slabs approximately 811 th1~ck. A 2" layer of high carbon steel of sirnil8r alloy content is melted onto the slab and the composite slab is then rolleddown into the required plate gauge. The process is flexible in that it er1its e variat1on i:i the composition of either the face or the back of the plate and also permits a wide variation in the ratio of face to back by varying th.13 t .1ickness of' the slab on which ~~he 2" layer of high carbon steel is deposited.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 28, 1944
Accession Number
AD0309983

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  • Air Platforms
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