Titanium armor applications in combat vehicles

Abstract

Overview TitaniumTitanium armor is being incorporated into the design of existing and future U.S. Army combat vehicles because it offers the best method of reducing vehicle weight and thus improving performance. Titanium's excellent specific mechanical and ballistic properties, as well as ease of fabrication, will likely make it a part of the U.S. Army's future combat system. How large a part it will be will depend on an overall cost/performance optimization.

Application-wise nanostructuring of anodic films on titanium: a review

“…As thoroughly described by Leyens and Peters in a comprehensive survey of titanium and its alloys, [1] the use of titanium is pushed by a synergy of chemical and mechanical properties that make it suitable for use not only in the production of aerospace [2] and biomedical components, [3,4] but also in chemical and oil industries, [5] automotive, [6,7] military, [8,9] architecture and jewellery. [10] The properties that account for this extremely wide range of applications are high specific mechanical strength (ensured by a high mechanical resistance combined with a low density), low thermal conductivity, low expansion coefficient, outstanding corrosion resistance and biocompatibility.…”

Mechanical Drilling Processes for Titanium Alloys: A Literature Review

“…Ti is also widely used in such industries as automobile (Anonymous, 1989;Yamashita et al, 2002), chemical (Farthing, 1979;Orr, 1982;Salama et al, 2000;Schutz et al, 2001), medical (Abdullin et al, 1988;Froes, 2002), metallurgic (Anonymous, 2004;Orr, 1982), military (Montgomery and Wells, 2001;Lerner, 2004), and sporting goods (Froes, 2002). The rapid advance of the application of Ti in the past several decades has been matched by a dramatic growth of the Ti industry.…”

Quasi-Static and Dynamic Properties of Ti-4Al-3V-0.6Fe-0.2O Titanium Alloy Plates

“…As Ti-6Al-4V alloy is the most common and widely used titanium alloy, it is easy to find abundant amount of Ti-6Al-4V scraps. Low-cost Ti-6Al-4V alloy products with recycled titanium scraps addition have already been used in combat vehicles and aircrafts [3]. In titanium scraps exist the impurities such as Fe, O.…”