Contains papers on the development and incorporation of ceramic materials for armor applications. Topics include impact and penetration modeling, dynamic and static testing to predict performance, damage characterization, non-destructive evaluation and novel material concepts.
Spis treści
Ceramic Armor Development and Study.
Advanced Ceramics for Personnel Armor: Current Status and Future
(E. Medvedovski).
Characterization of Al ON Optical Ceramic (T.M.
Hartnett, C.T. Warner, D. Fisher, W. Sunne).
Synthesis of Dense B4C-Si C-Ti B2 Composites
(S. Hayun, N. Frage, H. Dilman, V. Tourbabin, M.P. Dariel).
Biomorphic Reaction Bonded Silicon Carbide Ceramics for Armor
Applications (B. Heidenreich, M. Gahr, E. Medvedovski ).
Reaction-Bonded Si C Composites without Residual Si (J.P. Hurley,
V. Singh, J.A. Hamling).
Microstructural Engineering of the Si-C-Al-O-N System (R.M.
Flinders, D. Ray, A. Anderson, R.A. Cutler).
Ceramic-Polymer Composites for Ballistic Protection (P. Colombo,
E. Medvedovski, F. Zordan).
Grain Boundary and Triple Junction Chemistry of Silicon Carbide
with Aluminum and Aluminum Nitride Additive (E. Pabit, S. Crane, K.
Seiben, D.P. Butt, D. Ray, R.M. Flinders, R.A. Cutler ).
Defect Engineering of Samples for Non-Destructive Evaluation
(NDE) Ultrasound Testing (R. Brennan, R. Haber, D. Niesz, J.
Mc Cauley).
Defining Microstructural Tolerance Limits of Defects for Si C
Armor (M.V. Demirbas, R.A. Haber).
Fracture Mechanism of Ceramic Armor.
Characterization of Subsurface Damages of Static and Dynamic
Indented Armor Ceramics: Si C and Si3N4 (J.H.
Kim, Y.G. Kim, D.K. Kim).
Compressive Failure Threshold of Brittle Materials (E.B. Zaretsky,
V.E. Paris, G.I. Kanel, A. Rajendran).
Dynamic Response of B4C-Si C Ceramic Composites (S.
Hayun, N. Frage, M.P. Dariel, E. Zaretsky, Y. Ashuah).
O autorze
Eugene Medvedovski is the editor of Ceramic Armor and Armor Systems II: Proceedings of the 107th Annual Meeting of The American Ceramic Society, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2005, published by Wiley.