Advances in Ceramic Armor V, Volume 30, Issue 5

by Swab, Jeffrey J.; Singh, Dileep; Salem, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780470457559
• ISBN10: 0470457554
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-23
• Publisher: Wiley-American Ceramic Society

Summary

The Army's primary goal is to provide soldiers with the equipment and resources to do their job and to do it safely. A strategic element of the future success of the US military in the on-going global conflicts is the performance of armor systems, for air and ground vehicles as well as the individual soldier, against a myriad of potential threats. Ceramic materials are currently used in many armor systems and they will be integral components of future systems.The Armor Ceramics Symposium began in 2003 following the success of the Ceramic Armor Materials by Design symposium at the Pack Rim IV International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Glasses in November 2001. This coupled with the U.S. military actions in response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, were reasons for creating an annual meeting focused on armor ceramics. Furthermore the Pac Rim symposium showed the need for an unclassified gathering to discuss armor materials. Thus the primary objective of the Armor Ceramics Symposium is to provide an annual forum for the presentation and discussion of unclassified information and ideas pertaining to the development and incorporation of ceramic materials for armor applications. The seventh edition of this symposium focused on Impact, Penetration and Material Modeling, Material Concepts, Processes and Characterization, the Application of NDE, and Transparent Armor.

Author Biography

Jeffrey J. Swab is the editor of Advances in Ceramic Armor V, Volume 30, Issue 5, published by Wiley. Dileep Singh is the editor of Advances in Ceramic Armor V, Volume 30, Issue 5, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Preface.

Introduction.

Impact, Penetration and Material Modeling.

Fragmentation of Ceramics in the Ballistic Environment. (Dennis E. Grady).

Flow Behavior of GLass at the Tip of a Penetrator. Rheology of Powder and Porous Media In Modeling of Penetration into Porous Ceramic. (D.A. Shockey, D. Bergmannshoft, D.R. Curran, and J. W. Simons).

Computer Modeling of Shock Wave Propagation in SiC-Sample. (B.A. Galonov, V.V. Kartuzov, and S.M. Ivanov).

Ballistic IMpact Damage Observations in a Hot-pressed Boron Carbide. (V.L. Bekenev, V.V. Kartuzov, E.V. Kartuzov, and H.V. Hachataian).

Characterization of Mictrostructural Damgae in Silicon Carbide Processed via Modified Chemical Vapor Deposition. (J.C. LaSalvia, R.B. Leavy, J.R. Houskamp, H.T. Miller, D.E. MacKenzie, and J. Campbell).

Material Concepts, Processes and Characterization.

Effects of Grain Size, Shape and Second Phases on Properties of Sintered SiC.  (H.T. Miller, J.C. LaSalvia, R.B. Leavy, and D.E. MacKenzie).

Indenter Elastic Modulus and Hertzian Ring Crack Iniation. (K.T. Strong, Jr., A.A. Wereszezak, and W.L. Dalez, and O. M. Jadaan).

High Frequency Ultrasound of Alumina for High Strain-Rate Applications. (S. Bottiglieri and R.A. Haber).

The effect of Particle Size, Particle Loading and Thermal Processing Conditions on the Properties of Alumina Reinforced Aluminum Metal Matrix Composites. (Allyn L. McCormick, Michael K. Aghajanian, Andrew L. Marshall).

Pressureless Sintering of B4C-SiC Composites for Armor Applications. (Rosa Marla da Rocha, Francisco C. L. de Melo).

Applications of NDE.

A Portable Microwave Interference Scanning System for Nondestructive Testing of Multi-Layered Diclectric Materials. (K.F. Schmidt, Jr., J.R. Little, Jr., W.A. Ellingson, and W.Green).

Destructive Testing and Nondestructive Evaluation of Alumina Structural Ceramics. (Raymond E. Brennan, William H. Green, James M. Sands).

Nondestructive Evaluation of as Fabricated and Damged Encapsulated Ceramics. (William H. Green, Raymond Brennan, and Robert H. Carter).

Microstructural Study of Sintered SiC via High Fequency Ultrasound Spectroscopy. (A.R. Portune and R.A. Haber).

Impact Damage Analysis in a Level III Flexible Body Armor Vest using XCT Diagnostics. (Joe Wells. Nevin Rupert, and Murray Neal).

Transparent Armor.

Impact onto Glass and Glass Ceramic Bars. (Stephan Bless, John Tolman, Scott Levinson, and Ian Polyzois).

Numerical Study of the Effect of Surface Stresses of Transparent Ceramics of Laminated Targets for Military Armor Applications. (Costas G. Fountzoulas, James M. Sands, Gary Gilda, Parimal J. Patel).

Analyses of Various Damage Mechanisms in Transparent Armor Subject to Projectile Impact. (Kevin C. Lai, Xin Sun, and Douglas W. Templeton).

Pressureless Reaction of Sintering of AION Using Aluminum Orthophospage as a Transient Liquid Phase. (Michael Bakas, Henry Chu).

Alon Transparent Armor. (Lee M. Goldman, Robyn Foti, Mark Smith, Uday Kashalikar, and Suri Sastri).

Author Index.