Evaluation and Demonstration of the Viability of Salt Bath Solution Heat Treatment for Depleted Uranium Penetrators.

Abstract

An MM&T program to evaluate and demonstrate the viability of a salt bath solutionizing heat treatment for large caliber DU penetrators (0.75% by weight titanium) was conducted. One hundred M774 core blanks were evaluated to develop and verify the various process stages (e.g., outgassing salt residence times, etc.) of salt heat treatment. A viable salt bath heat treatment process was developed through this program. A pilot lot of 40 finished machined M774 penetrators was fabricated under the guidelines of this program and is available for ballistic testing. Included in this report is a general analysis of facility requirements to implement salt solutionizing heat treatment into the Aerojet production stream.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA142076

Entities

People

  • J. F. Muller
  • R. L. Nead

Organizations

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cooling
  • Demonstrations
  • Elements
  • Governments
  • Hardness
  • Heat Treatment
  • Manufacturing
  • Materials
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Metals
  • Munitions
  • Security
  • Solution Heat Treatment
  • Specifications
  • Standards
  • Verification Tests
  • Viability

Readers

  • Metallurgy
  • Software Engineering
  • Surface Engineering/Surface Coating Technology.