Research

Chemical Sciences

Title :

Development of high ballistic strength armour steel with 2 GPa tensile strength and min 50MPam1/2fracture toughness

Area of research :

Chemical Sciences

Focus area :

Ballistic strength armour steel

Principal Investigator :

Minal Shah, Scientist, CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory (CSIR-NML), Jharkhand

Timeline Start Year :

2020

Timeline End Year :

2022

Contact info :

Details

Executive Summary :

Objective: The project aims at the development of an indigenous technology for armour steel with enhance ballistic performance, which will be extremely useful for Indian Defence.

Summary: • The project will produce a technology for the armour plate, which will have better tensile, and toughness. • The material will have lightweight body armour plates, and have capability to absorb energy during projectile and avoid low energy failure mechanisms. • The technology will be tried in Pilot scale after the Lab scale development followed by field trials. The technology can be of strategic importance.

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