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  2. Abrasion resistant steel - Wikipedia

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    Abrasion resistant steel is typically used in applications requiring high wear resistance, including backhoe buckets and teeth, bulldozer blades, dump truck beds, ore and coal chutes, augers and aggregate conveyors. [6] Additional uses include shooting targets and armor, AR500 steel is commonly used for these applications as higher BHN steels ...

  3. ASTM A500 - Wikipedia

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    ASTM A500 is a standard specification published by the ASTM for cold-formed welded and seamless carbon steel structural tubing in round, square, and rectangular shapes. It is commonly specified in the US for hollow structural sections, but the more stringent CSA G40.21 is preferred in Canada. Another related standard is ASTM A501, which is a ...

  4. SAE steel grades - Wikipedia

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    SAE steel grades. The SAE steel grades system is a standard alloy numbering system (SAE J1086 – Numbering Metals and Alloys) for steel grades maintained by SAE International. In the 1930s and 1940s, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) and SAE were both involved in efforts to standardize such a numbering system for steels.

  5. Rolled homogeneous armour - Wikipedia

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    Rolled homogeneous armour. Rolled homogeneous armour (RHA) is a type of vehicle armour made of a single steel composition hot-rolled to improve its material characteristics, as opposed to layered or cemented armour. Its first common application was in tanks. After World War II, it began to fall out of use on main battle tanks and other armoured ...

  6. Special treatment steel - Wikipedia

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    This alloy-steel became known as "Special Treatment Steel (STS)"; it became the U.S. Navy Bureau of Construction and Repair (later Bureau of Ships) standard form of high-percentage nickel steel used on all portions of a warship needing homogeneous direct impact protection armor. STS was used as homogeneous armor that was less than 4 in (102 mm ...

  7. Steel grades - Wikipedia

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    EN 10027-1 steel grade designation system. European standard steel grade names fall into two categories: [1] Steel specified by purpose of use and mechanical properties. Steel specified by chemical composition. The inclusion of a letter 'G' before the code indicates the steel is specified in the form of a casting.

  8. Bulletproof vest - Wikipedia

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    The Improved Outer Tactical Vest (IOTV) in MultiCam, as issued to United States Army soldiers. A bulletproof vest, also known as a ballistic vest or a bullet-resistant vest, is an item of body armour that helps absorb the impact and reduce or stop penetration to the torso by firearm-fired projectiles and fragmentation from explosions.

  9. Grizzly APC - Wikipedia

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    300 HP. Suspension. 4×4 or 4x2 wheeled. Operational. range. 350 mi (560 km) Maximum speed. 105 km/h (65 mph) The Grizzly APC is a 22-ton infantry mobility vehicle designed and manufactured by Academi for urban combat.