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    The document discusses materials used for tank armor, including high hardness steel, titanium armor, ceramic and polymer composites, nanostructured metallic intermetallic laminated armor, and depleted uranium armor. It provides details on the composition and properties of high hardness steel, ceramic, and polymer armor materials. The goal is to develop armor that provides greater ballistic protection while minimizing increases in vehicle weight.

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    ARMOR TANK MATERIAL

    Introduction

    Imagine tank armor that chews up a high velocity projectile on impact . . . or composites of
    tungsten and uranium that lend an antitank penetrator rod the stiffness of the tungsten. the density
    and pyrophoric property of the uranium, and the surprising strength of their mixture or tiny
    crystal grains aligned in a sheet of uranium that allow it to stretch into a long, lethal jet of
    unbroken metal.

    Our interest in applying material research to conventional weapons has its origins in the
    Laboratory’s nuclear weapons program. To deal with the unique materials used in nuclear
    weapons, such as actinides, special ceramics, polymers, and so forth, the Laboratory had to develop
    significant expertise in materials research. Further, the iterative process of theory, design.
    fabrication, and testing used to develop nuclear weapons serves as the basis for a similar process
    in developing conventional ordnance. The attention to detail in material properties required for
    nuclear weapons is, perhaps, even even more important for conventional weapons .

    Composition of materials
    Following materials are used for tank.
     High hardness steel
     Titanium armor
     Ceramic and polymer
     Nanostructured metallic intermetallic laminated armor
     Depleted uranium armor

    High hardness steel :

    The armour on combat vehicles has always been constrained by its weight and with rising threat levels
    this has become an increasingly serious problem. Much effort is consequently being devoted to the
    development of armour that would provide greater ballistic protection with small increase in vehicle
    weight. The most direct approach to the problem has been to improve the ballistic properties of steel
    armour. This can be achieved by designing new alloys and by adapting suitable heat treatments. The
    outcome of this approach has been the achievement of VHS, which has hardness of 600 BHN or more
    and HHS which has a hardness of around 550 an experimental ICV developed by VRDE, Ahmednagar,
    VHS armour.
    Another form of add -on armour is prforated high hardness steel plates.

    Ceramic and polymer Armor :

    The need to reduce the weight of the armour system as well as the requirement of meeting a
    combination of threats have led to the concept of developing compound armour systems containing
    metallic, ceramic, and polymeric materials and their composites. Ceramics have the attractive properties
    of higher hardness, lower density, higher modulus coupled with some flexural strength and fracture
    toughness. Metals, on the other hand, provide the higher strength and toughness combinations with
    lower hardness levels. Table 2 shows the typical properties of ceramic armour materials with

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