Advances in Ceramic Armor IV, Volume 29, Issue 6 (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470456279
• Artikelnr.: 38211289

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.
Introduction.
TRANSPARENT GLASSES AND CERAMICS.
Mesomechanical Constitutive Relations for Glass and Ceramic Armor (D.R.
Curran, D.A. Shockey, and J.W. Simons).
Optimizing Transparent Armor Design Subject to Projectile Impact Conditions
(Xin Sun, Kevin C. Lai, Tara Gorsich, and Douglas W. Templeton).
Physics of Glass Failure during Rod Penetration (D.A. Shockey, D.
Bergmannshoff, D.R. Curran, and J.W. Simons).
Adhesive Bond Evaluation in Laminated Safety Glass using Guided Wave
Attenuation Measurements (S. Hou and H. Reis).
Applying Modeling Tools to Predict Performance of Transparent Ceramic
Laminate Armors (C.G. Fountzoulas, J.M. Sands, G.A. Gilde, and P.J. Patel
).
An Economic Comparison of Hot Pressing vs. Pressureless Sintering for
Transparent Spinel Armor (A. LaRoche, K. Rozenburg, J. Voyles, L.
Fehrenbacher, and Gary Gilde).
Advances in Ballistic Performance of Commercially Available Saint-Gobain
Sapphire Transparent Armor Composites (Christopher D. Jones, Jeffrey B.
Rioux, John W. Locher, Vincent Pluen, and Matthias Mandelartz).
Defect Free Spinel Ceramics of High Strength and High Transparency (Juan L.
Sepulveda, Raouf 0. Loutfy, and Sekyung Chang).
OPAQUE CERAMICS.
Recent Results on the Fundamental Performance of a Hot-Pressed Silicon
Carbide Impacted by Sub-scale Long-Rod Penetrators (Jeny C. LaSalvia, Brian
Leavy, Herbert T. Miller, Joshua R. Houskamp, and Ryan C. McCuiston).
Instrumented Hertzian Indentation Study of Two Commerical Silicon Carbides
(H.T. Miller, R.C. McCuiston, and J.C. LaSalvia).
Apparent Yield Strength of Hot-Pressed Sics (W.L. Daloz, A.A. Wereszczak,
and O.M. Jadaan).
Microstructural Examination and Quasi-Static Property Determination of
Sintered Armor Grade Sic (Memduh V. Demirbas, Richard A. Haber, and Raymond
E. Brennan).
Quantitative Characterization of Localized Amplitude Variations in Silicon
Carbide Ceramics using Ultrasound C-Scan Imaging (Raymond Brennan, James
McCauley, Richard Haber, and Dale Niesz).
Grain Boundary Engineering of Silicon Carbide by Means of Coprecipitation (
Steven Mercurio, Mihaela Jitianu, and Richard A. Haber).
The Possible Roles of Stoichiometry, Microstructure, and Defects on the
Mechanical Behavior of Boron Carbide (Ryan McCuiston, Jeny LaSalvia, James
McCauley, and William Mayo).
A Review of Ceramics for Armor Applications (P.G. Karandikar, G. Evans, S.
Wong, M.K. Aghajanian, and M. Sennett).
NOVEL EVALUATION AND CHARACTERIZATION.
A Portable Microwave Scanning Technique for Nondestructive Testing of
Multilayered Dielectric Materials (Karl Schmidt, Jack Little, and William
A. Ellingson).
Ballistic Damage Assessment of a Thin Compound Curved B4C Ceramic Plate
using XCT (J.M. Wells and N.L. Rupert).
Evaluation of Ballistically-Induced Damage in Ceramic Targets by X-Ray
Computed Tomography (William H. Green, Herbert T. Miller, Jerry C.
LaSalvia, Datta P. Dandekar, and Daniel Casem).
Automated Nondestructive Evaluation System for Hard Armor Protective
Inserts of Body Armor (Nicholas Haynes, Karl Masters, Chris Perritt, David
Simmons, James Zheng, and James E. Youngberg).
Analysis of Hardness Indentation Size Effect (ISE) Curves in Ceramics: A
New Approach to Determine Plasticity (Trevor E. Wilantewicz and James W.
McCauley).
Author Index.