A collection of 17 papers from thee popular symposia - Symposium 4: Armor Ceramics; Symposium 5: Next Generation Bioceramics and Biocomposites; and Symposium 9: Porous Ceramics: Novel Developments and Applications held during The American Ceramic Society’s 40th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, January 24-29, 2016.
Preface vii
Introduction ix
ARMOR CERAMICS
A Comparison of Damage in Glass and Ceramic Targets 3
Brady Aydelotte, Phillip Jannotti, Mark Andrews, and Brian Schuster
SPS Sintered Silicon Carbide-Boron Carbide Composites 13
Zeynep Ayguzer Yasar, R. A. Haber, and William Rafaniello
Effect of Al2O3 on the Densification and Microstructure of B4C 21
K. D. Behler, J. C. LaSalvia, E. R. Shanholtz, M. C. Golt, Scott Walck, and K. A. Kuwelkar
Ballistic Testing of Small 3D-Printed Alumina Disks with the Energy Method 31
Erik Carton and Jaap Weerheijm
The Effect of Powder Oxygen Content on the Morphology of Silicon Carbide Densified via Spark Plasma Sintering 39
V. DeLucca and R. A. Haber
Low Temperature Fabrication of Reaction Bonded Boron Carbide Composites Infiltrated with Al-Si Alloys 49
N. Frage, E. Oz, E. Ionash, H. Dilman, and S. Hayun
Chemical Interactions in B4C/WC Powder Mixtures Heated Under Inert and Oxidizing Atmospheres 57
E. R. Shanholtz, J. C. LaSalvia, K. D. Behler, S. D. Walck, A. Giri, and K. Kuwelkar
Simulation of Dwell-to-Penetration Transition for SiC Ceramics Subjected to Impact of Tungsten Long Rods 65
Jianming Yuan, Geoffrey E. B. Tan,lc¼
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