T500HBW QT high toughness and yield ballistic steel plate

Description

High hardness armor with extraordinary toughness properties.

T500HBW ballistic steel is the world’s toughest protection plate, having nominal 500 HBW hardness, for use in vehicles, buildings and many more applications.

Benefits of T500HBW include:

• Market-leading steel protection

• Superior workshop properties

• Optimized solutions

• Perfect hardness/toughness balance, for combined penetration and blast protection

• Expertise in ballistic protection from VANFORGE

It offers vehicle designers new ways to increase protection using lighter weight designs.

T500HBW steel is not intended for further heat treatment.

Dimension range

T500HBW is available in thicknesses between 3.0 and 80.0 mm. Other dimensions to be agreed with VANFORGE.

Mechanical Properties

(1) Average of three tests. Transverse to rolling direction. Single value min. 70% of specified average.

(2) For plate thicknesses under 12 mm sub-size Charpy-V specimen are used. The specified minimum value is then proportional to the specimen cross-section.

Mechanical Testing

Brinell hardness test according to EN ISO 6506-1 on each heat treatment individual.

Charpy impact test according to EN ISO 148 on each heat and thicknesses from 4 mm.

Tensile test according to EN ISO 6892 on each heat and thicknesses under 19.9 mm.

Ultrasonic testing

According to EN ISO 10 160 Class E3S3.

Chemical Composition (ladle analysis), %, max

The steel is grain-refined.

Intentional alloying elements.

(1) For plate thicknesses >70 mm Cr ≤ 1.5 and Ni ≤3.5

Thickness

Length and Width

According to VANFORGE´s dimension program.

• Tolerances conform to EN 10029 or to VANFORGE´s standard after agreement.

• Dimensional tolerances for plate with mill edge according to special agreement.

• ≤ 45.0 mm mill edge as standard.

Shape

Tolerances according to EN 10 029.

Flatness

Tolerances according to VANFORGE´s flatness tolerances which are more restrictive than EN 10029 Class N (steel type L).

Surface Properties

According to EN 10163 Class B Subclass 3.

Delivery Conditions

The delivery condition is QT (Quenched and Tempered).

Fabrication and Other Recommendations

Welding, bending and machining

T500HBW ballistic steel is not intended for further heat treatment. If T500HBW steel is heated above 190 °C after delivery from VANFORGE no guarantees for the properties of the steel are given.

Nitriding or surface coating may be carried out if the temperature is below 190 °C

Appropriate health and safety precautions must be taken when welding, cutting, grinding or otherwise working on the product. Grinding, especially of primer coated plates, may produce dust with high particle concentration.

Production process

Suzhou Vanforge Metals Co., Ltd. was set up in April 1999 with a registered capital of 230 million Yuan in Zhangjiagang Bonded Area in Jiangsu Province of China. It has developed to be an important R&D and manufacture enterprise of high performance stainless steels and nickel alloys.

Vanforge is a high-tech enterprise with 70 national patents, it has its own Special Alloy Research Center, academician workstation and post doctorate innovation practice base. Vanforge has been certificated the national laboratory accreditation of ISO/IEC 17025, and ISO9001, ISO14001, OHSAS18001, API Q1, IATF16949, GB/T23331, TUV, CCS, DNV, LR, ABS.

Vanforge has the international advanced special smelting capacity, including the German ALD 6t vacuum induction furnace, 6t consumable electrode vacuum furnace, 18t drawing-ingot protective atmosphere electroslag furnace and 1t vacuum induction furnace, 3t electroslag furnace, 18t drawing-hollow ingot electroslag furnace, and 2# Purification Furnace/1# Purification Furnace/LF/AOD/VOD refining production line, 25MN/8MN fast forging machine, 450/320 rolling mill, etc.

The current annual production capacity of Vanforge is 120,000 tons, and the main products are high-grade special alloy materials, including high temperature alloy, corrosion resistant alloy, precision alloy, ultra high strength steel, special stainless steel, high-grade tool and mould steel, steam turbine blades steel, gas turbine steel, ultra-supercritical materials, etc., which are widely used in aviation, aerospace, ship, petrochemical, nuclear power, electronics, steam turbine, high-speed rail, machinery manufacturing, and other fields; besides, we can organize the research and development and production of new materials according to customer demand for new materials. Vanforge has now become a qualified supplier of domestic high-end equipment manufacturing enterprises, such as CASIC, CGN, CRRC, CFHI, Wujin Stainless, Zhejiang Jiuli Hi-Tech Metals Co., Ltd., Xinxing Ductile Iron Pipe Co., Ltd., etc.

We always adhere to the concept of quality first, integrity based, scientific and technological innovation, making progress, and wholeheartedly serving customer and devote ourselves to becoming the well-known supplier of key basic materials of world’s high-end equipment manufacturing industry.

We supply following products in the forms of wires, bars, plates

(Super) austenitic stainless steels

(Super) duplex stainless steels

(Supper) Ferritic stainless steels

Precipitation hardening stainless steels

Incoloy alloys

Inconel alloys

Monel alloys

Hastelloy alloys

As well as following steel products

Gear steels

Bearing steels

Spring steels

Drilling tool steels

Free-cutting steels

Anchor steels, mooring chain steels

Mining chain steels

Die steels, Mold steels, tool steels

Structural steels

Antiwear steels

Offshore structure steels

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