Advances in Ceramic Armor III, Volume 28, Issue 5Lisa Prokurat Franks, Jonathan Salem, Dongming Zhu Papers from The American Ceramic Society's 31st International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, January 21-26, 2007. Topics include transparent ceramics for impact resistance, protection against mine blast and fragments, challenges facing ceramic armor manufacturers, novel material concepts and development of valid armor design and characterization tools to predict performance for air and ground vehicles as well as the individual soldier. |
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Al2O3 coated alumina angle armor ceramics Armor grade Armor Materials ballistic performance ballistic strength boron carbide bullet ceramic armor ceramic material ceramic targets ceramic tile cohesive element cone crack crack propagation crack tip damage features deformation diameter dynamic indentation effect elastic energy eutectic experimental failure Figure finite element fracture toughness Geopolymer grain size grain sizes hardness Hertzian cone hot pressed images impact velocity influence initial interface defeat longitudinal measured mechanical properties micrographs microstructure observed parameters particle penetration phase plastic yield plate platelets Poisson's ratio polycarbonate porosity powder Proc projectile projectile material radial ring cracks Saint-Gobain sample sapphire transparent armor shear stress shown in Fig shows silicon carbide simulations sintered spinel static indentation steel strain rate surface pressure technique temperature tests thickness TiB2 platelets transition velocity tungsten values volumetric W. M. Kriven Young's modulus