Quality & Approvals — Stancor Defence
How Stancor Defence controls quality: material released against the customer's specification with heat traceability, components inspected to an agreed inspection and test plan, NDT and dimensional records issued with EN 10204 3.1 or 3.2 certification.
Approvals and certifications
MIL-DTL-46100
High Hardness Armour Plate
The detail specification behind high hardness armour steel — chemistry, hardness class, ballistic acceptance and marking.
STANAG 4569
Protection Levels
NATO protection levels for vehicle occupants against kinetic, artillery and mine threats — the level, not the plate thickness, is what a design is specified against.
EN 1522 / EN 1063
Bullet Resistance Classes
European classes for bullet resistant windows, doors and shutters (FB1–FB7) used for protected infrastructure work.
IACS W11 / ASTM A131
Hull Steel Grades
Classification society requirements for normal and higher strength hull steel, including the impact test temperature behind each grade letter.
ASME IX / ISO 3834
Welding Qualification
Procedure and welder qualification, and the quality requirements for fusion welding that govern our fabricated assemblies.
EN 10204 3.1 / 3.2
Inspection Certificate
3.1 is certified by an independent inspection department; 3.2 adds the customer's or a third-party agency's countersignature.
Testing and inspection scope
- Chemical composition and PMI verification against the marking and certificate
- Hardness survey on armour plate, every plate, with the class stated
- Tensile, yield, elongation and Charpy impact at the specified temperature
- Ballistic acceptance test records where the specification calls for them
- Ultrasonic, magnetic particle, dye penetrant or radiographic testing to the agreed extent
- Dimensional and cut-piece verification against the ordered size or nest
- Hydrostatic or eddy current testing on pipe and tube to the ordered specification
- EN 10204 3.1 or 3.2 certification traceable to the heat or lot
Standards referenced
- MIL-DTL-46100 / MIL-DTL-12560 — US DoD · High hardness and rolled homogeneous armour plate
- STANAG 4569 — NATO · Protection levels for logistic and light armoured vehicle occupants
- IS 8500 / DMR Grades — BIS · Structural and naval-grade steel used by Indian yards
- ASTM A131 / A710 — ASTM International · Shipbuilding and HSLA structural steel
- AMS 4911 / AMS 5663 — SAE · Titanium 6Al-4V sheet and plate, Inconel 718 bar
- AS9100 / ISO 9001 — Quality management for aerospace and general manufacturing
- EN 10204 3.1 / 3.2 — CEN · Types of inspection document for metallic products
Documentation with every order
Mill test certificates accompany every despatch. Contact Stancor Defence for the full documentation list.