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Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Ballistical...
