Military metallurgy / Alistair Doig.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Doig, Alistair.

Contributor:

• Institute of Materials (Great Britain)

Series:

• Book (Institute of Materials (Great Britain)) ; 696.
• Book / Institute of Materials ; 696

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Weapons.
• Materials--Dynamic testing.
• Metallurgy.

Physical Description:

152 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : IOM Communications, [1998]

Summary:

• This book gives a broad-based view of metals in military service, covering several examples and rationales rather than just one or two in great depth. As such it is supposed to be informative and entertaining rather than rigorously academic in its approach.
• It is written for the militarist and for the metallurgist or materials scientist and for the enthusiastic amateur alike. The content is based on some of the author's course notes compiled for undergraduate and postgraduate students at The Royal Military College of Science (RMCS), Shrivenham, most of whom are serving Army Officers.

Contents:

• Chapter 1 Introduction to Metallurgy and Materials Selection, and Why is most military hardware metallic? 11
• Chapter 2 Brass and Steel Cartridge Cases, and some background non-ferrous metallurgy 23
• Chapter 3 Steel Shell Bodies - High Explosive Squash Head, and some background ferrous metallurgy 31
• Chapter 4 Steel Gun Barrels 35
• Chapter 5 Heavy Metal Kinetic Energy Penetrators 45
• Chapter 6 Copper Shaped Charge Penetrators 51
• Chapter 7 Ferrous Fragmenting Projectiles 57
• Chapter 8 Steel Armour for Main Battle Tanks and the Milne de Marre Graph 61
• Chapter 9 Aluminium Alloy Armour for Light Armoured Vehicles 67
• Chapter 10 Alloys for Military Bridges 71
• Chapter 11 Alloys for Gun Carriages and Tank Track Links 79
• Chapter 12 Dynamic Behaviour of Alloys at High Strain Rate 83
• Some Typical Materials Properties and Ashby Diagrams 88
• Chemical Elements, Alloy Compositions, and Steels Shorthand Notation used in this book 94.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-96) and index.

ISBN:

1861250614

OCLC:

43673408