Autofrettage is a work-hardening process in which a pressure vessel (thick walled) is subjected to enormous pressure, causing internal portions of the...

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...

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...

composite resin. During manufacturing, COPVs undergo a process called autofrettage. The unit is pressurized and the liner expands and plastically (permanently)...

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...

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...

the older guns. The steel-bronze (92% copper bronze strengthened by autofrettage, see Franz von Uchatius) was considered inferior to steel as early as...

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 -...

direct blast onto the workpiece, and a very hard workpiece material. Autofrettage, which produces compressive residual stresses in pressure vessels. Case...

light to induce a shock wave that propagates deep into the material. Autofrettage Shot peening Laser peening Low plasticity burnishing High-frequency impact...

the older guns. The steel-bronze (92% copper bronze strengthened by autofrettage, see Franz von Uchatius) was considered inferior to steel as early as...

useful. The so-called steel-bronze (92% copper bronze strengthened by autofrettage, see Franz von Uchatius) was considered inferior to steel as early as...

conventional design, with its most notable feature being its obsolescent autofrettaged bronze (so-called steel-bronze, see Franz von Uchatius) barrel, necessary...

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...

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...

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...

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...

remelting (ESR) steel which is insulated with a thermal sleeve and autofrettaged to withstand higher pressure. The newer Arjun MK1A variant retains the...

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...

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)...

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...

current and future 155 mm projectiles can be fired. The barrel is of autofrettage monoblock construction, fitted with a muzzle brake and fume extractor...

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...

construction for postwar guns of medium caliber. In a procedure called autofrettage, a bored monoblock tube is filled with hydraulic fluid at pressures higher...

vehicles can be increased. Welding Ultrasonic impact treatment Shot peening Autofrettage, which produces compressive residual stresses in pressure vessels. The...

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...

Melara.The Ariete is mounted with a 120 mm smoothbore Oto Melara cannon, autofrettaged and stress-hardened to increase durability over extended periods of...

equations of plastic deformation allowed French gunmakers to implement autofrettage on an industrial scale and boost the output of artillery pieces. In early...

still had to be delivered. In the mid-1870s Franz von Uchatius copied an autofrettage (avant la lettre) process from a 1869 American patent without a license...

Application of the Deep Hole Technique for Measuring Residual Stresses in Autofrettage Tubes. ASME, Pressure Vessels and Piping 93-94. F.Hosseinzadeh et al...