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An Example in Steel Casting    The Ice Cleat on the M1 Abrams Tank

An Example in Steel Casting

Summary --  Casting the Ice Cleat for the
M1 Abrams Tank

The Benefits

  • Tooling was completed in 2 weeks.   Prototype part assemblies were completed in 6 weeks.

  • The casting met all performance requirements -- wear, toughness, and durability -- in a field test.

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Ice Cleat Mounted for Testing

M1 A1  Abrams Tank

Acknowledgement
The metalcasting design examples are a joint effort of the
Steel Founders' Society of American and the American Foundrymen’s Society.

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Project funding was provided by the Lead Time and Cost Reduction Program, cosponsored by the American Metalcasting Consortium and the Defense Logistics Agency, Attn: DLSC-T, Ft. Belvoir, VA 22060-6221


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The developers would like to thank Ray Schneider, John Steadman, Ken Porter and Dick Wooding of Varicast for their time and information used in the making of this metalcasting design example.

Your comments and suggestions on these metalcasting  design examples are welcome -- monroe@sfsa.org.

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