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Originally Posted by Icelander
I'm pretty sure that with a hardness of BHN 460-544, this abrasion resistant 'AR500' steel is not going to be easily shaped into anything other than Solid plates or, at most, very gently curving ones.
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You form the steel while it's red hot, and thus somewhat soft, and then cool it (hopefully in the correct way, otherwise it'll give much less protection than you expect).
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I actually don't know if there are steel alloys with DR this high available today which can be manufactured as articulated plate armour, as opposed to just plate inserts of high DR ballistic protection that you use to protect the most important 40% to 60% of your Torso hit location (using up to four plates, front chest, back and two sides).
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If you're willing to go to the rouble of serious heat-treating there almost certainly are, but forming then treating it will be damned expensive.