The Mechanical Metallurgy of Armour Steels

Abstract

Armour steels have historically delivered optimised ballistic performance against a range of battlefield threats and continue to be highly competitive armour materials. The relationship between armour steel mechanical properties, specifically their mechanical metallurgy, and ballistic performance is explained, where such performance is primarily determined by material strength, hardness and high strain rate behaviour. Other important topics such as toughness; the adiabatic shear phenomenon; structural cracking; and dual hardness and electroslag remelted armour steels are also discussed along with armour steel specifications and standards.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1024201

Entities

People

  • Stephen J. Cimpoeru

Organizations

  • Defence Science and Technology Group

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Armored Vehicles
  • Chemistry
  • Dual Hardness
  • Explosives
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Hardness
  • Heat Treatment
  • Materials
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Mechanical Working
  • Metallurgy
  • Plastic Flow
  • Resistance
  • Standards
  • Strain Rate
  • Stress Corrosion
  • Tensile Strength

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Metallurgy