Advances in Ceramic Armor III [Hardcover]

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
Patrik Lundberg

The Influence of Tile Size on the Ballistic Performance of a Ceramic-Faced Polymer 19
Paul J. Hazell, Mauricio Moutinho, Colin J. Roberson, and Nicholas Moore

Static and Dynamic Indentation Response of Fine Grained Boron Carbide 29
Ghatu Subhash, Dipankar Ghosh, and Spandan Maiti

Hierarchy of Key Influences on the Ballistic Strength of Opaque and Transparent Armor 45
Andreas Krell and Elrnar Strassburger

Concepts for Energy Absorption and Dissipation in Ceramic Armor 57
Dong-Kyu Kim, Jonathan Bell, Dechang Jia, Waltraud M. Kriven, and Victor Kelsey

Some Practical Requirements for Alumina Armor Systems 71
K. Sujirote, K. Dateraksa, and N. Chollacoop

GLASSES AND TRANSPARENT CERAMICS

Limit Analyses for Surface Crack Instantaneous Propagation Angles in Elastic Hertzian Field 93
Xin Sun and Moharnrnad A. Khaleel

Dynamic Failure of a Borosilicate Glass Under Compression/Shear Loading 103
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