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Advances in Ceramic Armor III, Volume 28, Issue 5
Lisa Prokurat Franks (Edited by), L Franks (Author), Jonathan Salem (Volume editor), Dongming Zhu (Volume editor)
9780470196366, Wiley
Hardback, published 11 December 2007
236 pages
24.1 x 16.1 x 1.6 cm, 0.463 kg
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.
Preface ix Introduction xi GENERAL/OVERVIEW Research in Sweden on Dwell in Ceramics 3 The Influence of Tile Size on the Ballistic Performance of a Ceramic-Faced Polymer 19 Static and Dynamic Indentation Response of Fine Grained Boron Carbide 29 Hierarchy of Key Influences on the Ballistic Strength of Opaque and Transparent Armor 45 Concepts for Energy Absorption and Dissipation in Ceramic Armor 57 Some Practical Requirements for Alumina Armor Systems 71 GLASSES AND TRANSPARENT CERAMICS Limit Analyses for Surface Crack Instantaneous Propagation Angles in Elastic Hertzian Field 93 Dynamic Failure of a Borosilicate Glass Under Compression/Shear Loading 103 Ballistic Performance of Commercially Available Saint-Gobain Sapphire Transparent Armor Composites 113 OPAQUE CERAMICS Synthesis of Ceramic Eutectics Using Microwave Processing 127 Hot Pressing of Boron Carbide Using Metallic Carbides as Additives 135 Spatial Distribution of Defects in Silicon Carbide and its Correlation with Localized Property Measurements 143 Silicon Carbide Microstructure Improvements for Armor Applications 155 The Effect of Si Content on the Properties of B,C-SIC-Si Composites 161 DAMAGE AND TESTING Preliminary Investigation of Damage in an Armor-Grade B4C Induced by Quasi-Static Hertzian Indentation 171 In-Situ Fragment Analysis with X-ray Computed Tomography, XCT 181 Ballistically-Induced Damage in Ceramic Targets as Revealed by X-ray Computed Tomography 193 On Continuing the Evolution of XCT Engineering Capabilities for Impact Damage Diagnostics 203 Elastic Property Mapping Using Ultrasonic Imaging 213 Author Index 223
Patrik Lundberg
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Ghatu Subhash, Dipankar Ghosh, and Spandan Maiti
Andreas Krell and Elrnar Strassburger
Dong-Kyu Kim, Jonathan Bell, Dechang Jia, Waltraud M. Kriven, and Victor Kelsey
K. Sujirote, K. Dateraksa, and N. Chollacoop
Xin Sun and Moharnrnad A. Khaleel
X. Nie and W. Chen
Christopher D. Jones, Jeffrey 8. Rioux, John W. Locher, Vincent Pluen, and Mattias Mandelartz
Anton V. Polotai, Jiping Cheng, Dinesh K. Agrawal, Elizabeth C. Dickey, and Sheldon Cytron
Pedro August0 de S.L. Cosentino, Celio A. Costa, Jose Brant de Campos, and Roberto Ribeiro de Avillez
Memduh V. Dernirbas, Richard A. Haber, and Raymond E. Brennan
Steven Mercurio and Richard A. Haber
P. Chhillar, M. K. Aghajanian, D. D. Marchant, R. A. Haber, and M. Sennett
R.C. McCuiston, H.T. Miller, and J.C. LaSalvia
J.M. Wells
H.T. Miller, W.H. Green, and J.C. LaSalvia
J.M. Wells
Raymond Brennan, Richard Haber, Dale Niesz, George Sigel, and James McCauley
Subject Areas: Mechanical engineering & materials [TG]
