Caracterização do material e avaliação dimensional das telhas das lagartas dos blindados leopard 1A5-BR para processo de nacionalização do componente

Abstract

The city of Santa Maria has an Army unit that is responsible for the maintenance and modernization of the Armored Leopard 1A5-BR. The maintenance process requires the supply of components that in many cases are not available in the international market and sometimes the prices are abusive. For strategic reasons it is necessary to nationalize the components, among the strategic components to be nationalized are the Leopard 1A5-BR tiles. This work aims to Reverse Engineering the tile of the Leopard 1A5-BR tracks. For this, the dimensional evaluation and redesign of the component will be done; the survey of the processes used for its manufacture and heat treatments, as well as the mechanical properties and metallurgical characteristics of the material. These values raised will then be made available to the Brazilian Army for the preparation of technical criteria and guide the preparation of the purchase bid. The experimentally collected data will later be used to evaluate the components delivered by the chosen supplier for the approval of the purchase. Since the city of Santa Maria/RS has a unit responsible for the maintenance and modernization of the Leopard 1A5-BR, the components that were selected as strategic need to be nationalized.