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Study on the Improving Penetration Performance of Tungsten Heavy Alloy Penetrator by Heat Treatment (열처리 공정을 통한 텅스텐 중합금 관통자의 관통능력 향상에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Myunghyun;Noh, Jooyoung;Lee, Youngwoo;An, Daehee
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.322-327
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    • 2020
  • An Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot (APFSDS), which penetrates and sabotages the target by physical energy, consists of a general penetrator using Depleted Uranium (DU) or Tungsten Heavy Alloy (THA) but THA is preferable because of manufacturing and environmental issues. On a THA penetrator, the penetration performance is determined mainly by self-sharpening depending on the hardness and toughness of materials. In particular, the tensile strength and impact strength work as key factors. The correlation coefficient for the penetration performance of the tensile strength was 0.721 and the impact strength was -0.599. The improved penetration performance by additional heat treatment was proven experimentally. Therefore, maintaining elongation over 9 % and tensile strength over 123 kg/㎟ is desirable, and the impact strength should be less than 6.8 kg·m/㎠ for good penetration performance.

Fabrication of Ultrafine Tungsten-based Composite Powders by Novel Reduction Process (신공정에 의한 초미립 텅스텐계 복합분말 제조)

  • Lee, Dong-Won
    • Journal of Powder Materials
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.338-342
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    • 2012
  • A novel chemical method was evaluated to fabricate the ultrafine tungsten heavy alloy powders with bater-base solution made from the ammonium metatungstate (AMT), iron(II) chloride tetrahydrate ($FeCl_2{\cdot}4H_2O$), nickel(II) chloride hexahydrate ($NiCl_2{\cdot}6H_2O$) as source materials and the sodium tungstate dihydrate ($NaWO_4{\cdot}2H_2O$) as Cl-reductant. In the preparation of mixtures the amounts of the source components were chosen so as to obtain alloy of 93W-5Ni-2Fe composition(wt.%). The obtained powders were characterized by X-ray diffraction, XRF, field-emission scanning microscope (FESEM), and chemical composition was analyzed by EDX.

Synthesis of Tungsten Heavy alloy Nanocomposite Powder by Ultrasonic-milling Process (초음파 밀링 공정을 이용한 텅스텐 중합금 나노복합분말의 제조)

  • Lee, Seung-Chul;Lee, Chang-Woo;Jung, Sung-Soo;Cha, Berm-Ha;Lee, Jai-Sung
    • Journal of Powder Materials
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    • v.14 no.2 s.61
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    • pp.101-107
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    • 2007
  • Ultrasonic-milling of metal oxide nanopowders for the preparation of tungsten heavy alloys was investigated. Milling time was selected as a major process variable. XRD results of metal oxide nanopowders ultrasonic-milled for 50 h and 100 h showed that agglomerate size reduced with increasing milling time and there was no evidence of contamination or change of composition by impurities. It was found that nanocomposite powders reduced at $800^{\circ}C$ in a hydrogen atmosphere showed a chemical composition of 93.1W-4.9Ni-2.0Fe from EDS analysis. Hardness of sintered part using 50 h and 100 h powder samples was 399 Hv and 463 Hv, respectively, which is higher than the that of commercial products (330-340 Hv).