A collection of papers presented at the 32nd International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, January 27-February 1, 2008, Daytona Beach, Florida / editor, Lisa Prokurat Franks ; volume editors, Tatsuki Ohji, Andrew Wereszczak.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Prokurat Franks, Lisa.

Ohji, T. (Tatsuki)

Wereszczak, Andrew.

American Ceramic Society.

Conference Name:

International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites (32nd : 2008 : Daytona Beach, Fla.)

International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites.

Series:

Ceramic engineering and science proceedings ; v. 29, no. 6.

Advances in ceramic armor ; 4

Ceramic engineering and science proceedings ; v. 29, issue 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Armor--Congresses.

Armor.

Ceramic materials--Congresses.

Ceramic materials.

Composite materials--Congresses.

Composite materials.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume provides a one-stop resource, compiling current research on ceramic armor and addressing the challenges facing armor manufacturers. It is a collection of papers from The American Ceramic Society s 32nd International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, January 27-February 1, 2008. Topics include novel materials concepts for both vehicle and body armors, transparent ceramics for impact resistance, and more. This is a valuable, up-to-date resource for researchers in industry, government, or academia who are working with ceramic armor.

Contents:

Advances in Ceramic Armor IV; Contents; Preface; Introduction; TRANSPARENT GLASSES AND CERAMICS; Mesomechanical Constitutive Relations for Glass and Ceramic Armor; Optimizing Transparent Armor Design Subject to Projectile Impact Conditions; Physics of Glass Failure during Rod Penetration; Adhesive Bond Evaluation in Laminated Safety Glass using Guided Wave Attenuation Measurements; Applying Modeling Tools to Predict Performance of Transparent Ceramic Laminate Armors; An Economic Comparison of Hot Pressing vs. Pressureless Sintering for Transparent Spinel Armor

Advances in Ballistic Performance of Commercially Available Saint-Gobain Sapphire Transparent Armor CompositesDefect Free Spinel Ceramics of High Strength and High Transparency; OPAQUE CERAMICS; Recent Results on the Fundamental Performance of a Hot-Pressed Silicon Carbide Impacted by Sub-Scale Long-Rod Penetrators; Instrumented Hertzian Indentation Study of Two Commercial Silicon Carbides; Apparent Yield Strength of Hot-Pressed SiCs; Microstructural Examination and Quasi-Static Property Determination of Sintered Armor Grade SiC

Quantitative Characterization of Localized Amplitude Variations in Silicon Carbide Ceramics using Ultrasound C-Scan ImagingGrain Boundary Engineering of Silicon Carbide by Means of Coprecipitation; The Possible Roles of Stoichiometry, Microstructure, and Defects on the Mechanical Behavior of Boron Carbide; A Review of Ceramics for Armor Applications; NOVEL EVALUATION AND CHARACTERIZATION; A Portable Microwave Scanning Technique for Nondestructive Testing of Multilayered Dielectric Materials; Ballistic Damage Assessment of a Thin Compound Curved B4C Ceramic Plate using XCT

Evaluation of Ballistically-Induced Damage in Ceramic Targets by X-Ray Computed TomographyAutomated Nondestructive Evaluation System for Hard Armor Protective Inserts of Body Armor; Analysis of Hardness Indentation Size Effect (ISE) Curves in Ceramics: A New Approach to Determine Plasticity; Author Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786612022227

9781282022225

1282022229

9780470456286

0470456280

9780470456279

0470456272

OCLC:

587391532