Development of an Improved Method for Production of Torsion-Tube Springs for Tracked Vehicles

Abstract

The objectives of this manufacturing development program were to determine methods capable of producing torsion tubes at reduced manufacturing cost with no sacrifice in quality. The methods addressed was HYDRAFILM extrusion of tube blanks and final machining to configuration. It was found that the internal configuration can be brought to a near net condition as extruded thus precluding much I.D. machining. Failure of the extrusion tooling after 13 trials resulted in the final delivery of only four testable sample items. These were submitted for Government test and evaluation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA396862

Entities

People

  • A. L. Hoffmanner
  • G. A. Gegel
  • R. W. Siorek

Organizations

  • Battelle Memorial Institute

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Assembly
  • Cost Analysis
  • Engineers
  • Extrusion
  • Fabrication
  • Machining
  • Manufacturing
  • Mass Production
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Munitions
  • Production
  • Production Rate
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Tracked Vehicles
  • United States
  • Vehicles

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