Ebook: Advances in Ceramic Armor IV: Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings, Volume 29, Issue 6

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.Content:
Chapter 1 Mesomechanical Constitutive Relations for Glass and Ceramic Armor (pages 1–13): D. R. Curran, D. A. Shockey and J. W. Simons
Chapter 2 Optimizing Transparent Armor Design Subject to Projectile Impact Conditions (pages 15–22): Xin Sun, Kevin C. Lai, Tara Gorsich and Douglas W. Templeton
Chapter 3 Physics of Glass Failure During Rod Penetration (pages 23–32): D. A. Shockey, D. Bergmannshoff, D. R. Curran and J. W. Simons
Chapter 4 Adhesive Bond Evaluation in Laminated Safety Glass Using Guided Wave Attenuation Measurements (pages 33–44): S. Hou and H. Reis
Chapter 5 Applying Modeling Tools to Predict Performance of Transparent Ceramic Laminate Armors (pages 45–53): C.G. Fountzoulas, J.M. Sands, G.A. Gilde and P.J. Patel
Chapter 6 An Economic Comparison of Hot Pressing vs. Pressureless Sintering for Transparent Spinel Armor (pages 55–62): A. LaRoche, K. Rozenburg, J. Voyles, L. Fehrenbacher and Gary Gilde
Chapter 7 Advances in Ballistic Performance of Commercially Available Saint?Gobain Sapphire Transparent Armor Composites (pages 63–74): Christopher D. Jones, Jeffrey B. Rioux, John W. Locher, Vincent Pluen and Matthias Mandelartz
Chapter 8 Defect Free Spinel Ceramics of High Strength and High Transparency (pages 75–85): Juan L. Sepulveda, Raouf O. Loutfy and Sekyung Chang
Chapter 9 Recent Results on the Fundamental Performance of a Hot?Pressed Silicon Carbide Impacted by Sub?Scale Long?Rod Penetrators (pages 87–97): Jerry C. LaSalvia, Brian Leavy, Herbert T. Miller, Joshua R. Houskamp and Ryan C. McCuiston
Chapter 10 Instrumented Hertzian Indentation Study of Two Commerical Silicon Carbides (pages 99–105): H.T. Miller, R.C. McCuiston and J.C. LaSalvia
Chapter 11 Apparent Yield Strength of Hot?Pressed SiCs (pages 107–118): W. L. Daloz, A. A. Wereszczak and O. M. Jadaan
Chapter 12 Microstructural Examination and Quasi?Static Property Determination of Sintered Armor Grade SiC (pages 119–127): Memduh V. Demirbas, Richard A. Haber and Raymond E. Brennan
Chapter 13 Quantitative Characterization of Localized Amplitude Variations in Silicon Carbide Ceramics Using Ultrasound C?Scan Imaging (pages 129–139): Raymond Brennan, James McCauley, Richard Haber and Dale Niesz
Chapter 14 Grain Boundary Engineering of Silicon Carbide by Means of Coprecipitation (pages 141–152): Steven Mercurio, Mihaela Jitianu and Richard A. Haber
Chapter 15 The Possible Roles of Stoichiometry, Microstructure, and Defects on the Mechanical Behavior of Boron Carbide (pages 153–162): Ryan McCuiston, Jerry LaSalvia, James McCauley and William Mayo
Chapter 16 A Review of Ceramics for Armor Applications (pages 163–175): P. G. Karandikar, G. Evans, S. Wong, M. K. Aghajanian and M. Sennett
Chapter 17 A Portable Microwave Scanning Technique for Nondestructive Testing of Multilayered Dielectric Materials (pages 177–189): Karl Schmidt, Jack Little and William A. Ellingson
Chapter 18 Ballistic Damage Assessment of a Thin Compound Curved B4C Ceramic Plate Using XCT (pages 191–197): J.M. Wells and N.L. Rupert
Chapter 19 Evaluation of Ballistically?Induced Damage in Ceramic Targets by X?ray Computed Tomography (pages 199–210): William H. Green, Herbert T. Miller, Jerry C. LaSalvia, Datta P. Dandekar and Daniel Casem
Chapter 20 Automated Non?Destructive Evaluation System for Hard Armor Protective Inserts of Body Armor (pages 211–218): Nicholas Haynes, Karl Masters, Chris Perritt, David Simmons, Dr. James Zheng and Dr. James E. Youngberg
Chapter 21 Analysis of Hardness Indentation Size Effect (ISE) Curves in Ceramics: A New Approach to Determine Plasticity (pages 219–227): Trevor E. Wilantewicz and James W. McCauley