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Ceramic armor and armor systems : proceedings of the Ceramic Armor and Armor Systems Symposium held at the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society, April 27-30, 2003 in Nashville, Tennessee /

This volume includes the latest achievements in the area of ceramic armor systems including ceramic armor design and modeling, ceramic armor materials and composites development and manufacturing, physical properties and structures of armor ceramics, fracture mechanisms of armor ceramics and composi...

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Corporate Authors: Ceramic Armor and Armor Systems Symposium, American Ceramic Society Meeting
Other Authors: Medvedovski, Eugene
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Westerville, Ohio : American Ceramic Society, ©2003.
Series:Ceramic transactions ; v. 151.
Subjects:
Ceramic materials > Congresses.
Armor-plate > Materials > Congresses.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Ceramic Armor Materials Development. Lightweight Ballistic Structures Made of Ceramic and Cermet / Aramide Composites / R Gadow, K von Niessen
  • Silicon Carbide-Based Ceramics for Ballistic Protection / Eugene Medvedovski
  • Toughness-Hardness Trade-Off in Advanced SiC Armor / Marc Flinders, Darin Ray, Raymond A Cutler
  • Development of a Pressureless Sintered Silicon Carbide Monolith and Special-Shaped Silicon Carbide Whisker Reinforced Silicon Carbide Matrix Composite for Lightweight Armor Application / TM Lillo, HS Chu, DW Bailey, W M Harrison, D A Laughton
  • Design and Manufacturing BC-SiC Layered Ceramics for Armor Applications / Nina Orlovskaya, J Adams, J Sankar, S Yarmolenko, M Lugovy, V Subbotin, O Rachenko, M Chheda, J Shih
  • Improved Pressureless Densification of BC / Robert F Speyer, Hyukjae Lee
  • Spinel Armor
  • Clearly the Way to Go / Mark C L Patterson, Don W Roy, Gary Gilde
  • Fracture Mechanism of Armor Ceramics and Composites. Controlled Explosive Indentation on Ceramics / Do Kyung Kim, Jong Ho Kim, Young-Gu Kim, Chul-Seung Lee, Dong-Teak Chung, Chang Wook Kim, Joon Hong Choi, Soon-Nam Chang
  • Evidence of Ductile (Alumina) and Brittle (Boron Carbide) Response of Ceramics Under Shock Wave Loading / EB Zaretsky, VE Paris, AS Savinykh, GI Kanel
  • Dynamc Failure and Fracture of the TiC-Steel Composite / E Zaretsky, N Frage, MP Dariel
  • Ballistic Testing Study and Ballistic Performance of Ceramic Armor and Armor Systems. Failure of Projectile Impact Resistant Glass Panels / Richard C Bradt, Stanley E Jones, Mark E Barkey, Michael E Stevenson
  • Penetration Analysis of Ceramic Armor Backed by Composite Materials / Moshe Ravid, Sidney Chocron, Sol R Bodner
  • Resistance of Different Ceramic Materials to Penetration by a Tungsten Carbide Cored Projectile / C Roberson, P J Hazell
  • Resistance of Silicon Carbide to Penetration by a Tungsten Carbide Cored Projectile / C Roberson, P J Hazell
  • An Investigation into Fragmenting the 14.5 mm BS41 Armour Piercing Round by Varying a Confined Ceramic Target Setup / N J Woolmore, P J Hazell, TP Stuart
  • Keyword and Author Index.
  • Ceramic armor materials development
  • Fracture mechanism of armor ceramics and composites
  • Ballistic testing study and ballistic performance of ceramic armor and armor systems.