SuperBainite(HighHardness)Steel-Ploughshare.pdfVIP

Materials Super Bainite (High Hardness) Steel Background Super Bainite steel is a high performance armour steel, following live fire trials it has been demonstrated to have a hardness matching that of alternative high hardness armour steels, and some ceramic armours, at a much reduced cost. Technology 10mm x 10mm specimen at room temperature • Vickers Hardness (HV30) of 690HV30 One of the key attributes of the Super Bainite steel, as an armour steel, is its two phase production process. The Brinell (10 mm Ball, 3000 kg load) of 574HBW steel is produced using conventional strip steel Rockwell C (20 degree cone 150 kg) of HRC 57 furnace/production processes to make the low-alloy steel, • Available in a fixed width of 1250mm up to 5.5m length which in its hot state can be rolled/coiled as conventional and two gauges 6.3mm 8.5mm. strip steel. Following production the steel is in a relatively soft pearlite Applications phase and not hardened. The steel can then be worked i.e. cut, machined, bent etc. to be made into final armour • Armoured Vehicle Protection components, using conventional machine shop tooling. • Wear Steel Components • Extrusion/Bar Components It can then be hardened by using a simple isothermal heat treatment process where the steel converts to fully Benefits hardened Super Bainite steel. • Made as a Pearlite - easy to process • Ballistic mass efficiency of 2.5 in a perforated steel armour system