Report of Investigations 9460: Innovative Method for Casting Steel Armorplate

Details

• Journal Article:
  U.S. Bureau of Mines
• Personal Author:
  Hansen, Jeffrey S. ; Turner, P. C.
• Description:
  The U.S. Bureau of Mines, through an Interagency Agreement with the U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Command (TACOM), has successfully developed a steel expendable pattern casting process (EPC) for the manufacture of armorplate. The new armor is lighter and more ballistically effective than conventional rolled homogeneous armor (RHA) and costs less. An applique armor spinoff from the program was field-tested during the Gulf War. The applique armor withstood direct impacts from enemy munitions without failure. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Metals Metal Workers Occupational Health Safety
• Source:
  USBM 1993 :1-9
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications   ; Mining Publications  
• Subseries:
  Report of Investigations
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  ALRC - Albany Research Center
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  15 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:10012085
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB93-190429
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1993
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1cedbec2b975184bd19d96b3c04d83c44595cb1f3b02bf5e5132ba18012f86689003d3592478e3da806b1e84c2ec90c6d1a38c4283c0fcbbd4eb5f1a8218faf2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/10173/cdc_10173_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.63 MB ]