autofrettage

[′ȯd·ō‚fred·ij]

(engineering)

A process for manufacturing gun barrels; prestressing the metal increases the load at which its permanent deformation occurs.

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Typical applications include: pressure test stands, burst testing, autofrettage, chemical injection, gauge testing, work holding, jacking and lifting systems and valve actuation.

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To counter this the US Naval Air Systems Command is funding Connecticut company Flightware to develop a surface protection process called "inverse autofrettage".

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has developed turnkey ultra high-pressure leak test systems and autofrettage systems for R&D and production of diesel engine components.

Leak testing and autofrettage systems

This being said, the actual tube-sections used in project Babylon were pre-stressed, layered, compressed steel components produced through a mechanism called "autofrettage." The latter is a process used almost exclusively for the manufacture of gun barrels.

Canada, Iraq & the super gun

In forming, they will be offering help in sizing, punching, autofrettage; the redistribution of stresses; and shock hardening.

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Their product range now includes single-stage gas guns, two-stage light-gas guns, firing-range chambers, detonation chambers, explosion-containment chambers, Split-Hopkinson bars for compression or direct-tensile tests and autofrettage machines for gun barrels.

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