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    Autofrettage is a work-hardening process in which a pressure vessel (thick walled) is subjected to enormous pressure, causing internal portions of the...
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    composite resin. During manufacturing, COPVs undergo a process called autofrettage. The unit is pressurized and the liner expands and plastically (permanently)...
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  • shrink-fit cylinders, but can also be performed to singular cylinders though autofrettage of thick cylinders. The hoop stress is the force over area exerted circumferentially...
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    was a product of technical advances such as the French invention of autofrettage just before World War I, which led to stronger and lighter barrels, the...
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  • Thumbnail for 10 cm Feldhaubitze M 99
    barrel from the so-called steel bronze (92% copper bronze strengthened by autofrettage which was used due to the lack of steel industry in Austria, see Franz...
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    Gun variants: Mk IX - main pre-war production version, with barrel of autofrettage construction. Mk IX-A - Mk IX simplified for mass production. Mk X -...
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    light to induce a shock wave that propagates deep into the material. Autofrettage Shot peening Laser peening Low plasticity burnishing High-frequency impact...
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    the older guns. The steel-bronze (92% copper bronze strengthened by autofrettage, see Franz von Uchatius) was considered inferior to steel as early as...
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    direct blast onto the workpiece, and a very hard workpiece material. Autofrettage, which produces compressive residual stresses in pressure vessels. Case...
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  • approximately halfway down its length. The barrel is fabricated using the autofrettage method to allow the wall to be thin but extremely strong. A hydro-spring...
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    conventional design, with its most notable feature being its obsolescent autofrettaged bronze (so-called steel-bronze, see Franz von Uchatius) barrel, necessary...
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    Al-Zarrar's primary armament is a 125 mm smoothbore tank gun with an autofrettaged, chrome-plated gun barrel. It is a Chinese non-licensed clone of 2A46...
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    entered combat. The complex Type 94 barrels were constructed in three autofrettaged stages. A half-length tube was fitted over the first tube and shrunk...
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  • weight 6.4 kg (APC-T shot POT-51A) Calibre 75 mm (2.95 in) Barrels autofrettaged Action semi-automatic horizontal sliding-wedge breech Breech horizontal...
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    construction for postwar guns of medium caliber. In a procedure called autofrettage, a bored monoblock tube is filled with hydraulic fluid at pressures higher...
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    ring. The tube is made of high strength alloy steel, heat-treated and autofrettaged to provide maximum life. The firing mechanism is a continuous pull (self-cocking)...
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  • Thumbnail for 10 cm Gebirgshaubitze M 99
    made from the so-called steel bronze (92% copper bronze strengthened by autofrettage which was used due to the lack of steel industry in Austria, see Franz...
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    vertical sliding breech-block is used, the barrel is chrome-plated and autofrettaged. The 120 mm smooth-bore gun G1 has been fitted to the private venture...
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    remelting (ESR) steel which is insulated with a thermal sleeve and autofrettaged to withstand higher pressure. The newer Arjun MK1A variant retains the...
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    current and future 155 mm projectiles can be fired. The barrel is of autofrettage monoblock construction, fitted with a muzzle brake and fume extractor...
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    slightly shorter maximum range. Also, unlike the Abbot, the barrel is autofrettaged and hence lighter. The light gun appears to owe a number of its features...
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  • Thumbnail for 15 cm Mörser M 80
    War I.. The so-called steel-bronze (92% copper bronze strengthened by autofrettage, see Franz von Uchatius) was considered inferior to steel as early as...
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    equations of plastic deformation allowed French gunmakers to implement autofrettage on an industrial scale and boost the output of artillery pieces. In early...
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    was modified. In the Mk IVA, the A tube and wire were replaced by an autofrettaged loose liner. The Mk IVB was the same with minor modifications, most...
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  • the older guns. The steel-bronze (92% copper bronze strengthened by autofrettage, see Franz von Uchatius) was considered inferior to steel as early as...
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  • Application of the Deep Hole Technique for Measuring Residual Stresses in Autofrettage Tubes. ASME, Pressure Vessels and Piping 93-94. F.Hosseinzadeh et al...
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    working them from inside with plugs of hardened steel (now known as autofrettage) was invented and patented in 1869 by Samuel B. Dean of the South Boston...
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    vehicles can be increased. Welding Ultrasonic impact treatment Shot peening Autofrettage, which produces compressive residual stresses in pressure vessels. The...
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    Melara.The Ariete is mounted with a 120 mm smoothbore Oto Melara cannon, autofrettaged and stress-hardened to increase durability over extended periods of...
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    trials with a new gun presented by Franz von Uchatius. Uchatius copied an autofrettage (avant la lettre) process from a 1869 American patent without a license...
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