Advances in Ceramic Armor, Bioceramics, and Porous Materials, Volume 37, Issue 4

A collection of 17 papers from thee popular symposia - Symposium 4: Armor Ceramics; Symposium 5: Next Generation Bioceramics and Biocomposites; and Symposium 9: Porous Ceramics: Novel Developments and Applications held during The American Ceramic Society’s 40th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, January 24-29, 2016.

Preface vii Introduction ix ARMOR CERAMICS A Comparison of Damage in Glass and Ceramic Targets 3 Brady Aydelotte, Phillip Jannotti, Mark Andrews, and Brian Schuster SPS Sintered Silicon Carbide-Boron Carbide Composites 13 Zeynep Ayguzer Yasar, R. A. Haber, and William Rafaniello Effect of Al2O3 on the Densification and Microstructure of B4C 21 K. D. Behler, J. C. LaSalvia, E. R. Shanholtz, M. C. Golt, Scott Walck, and K. A. Kuwelkar Ballistic Testing of Small 3D-Printed Alumina Disks with the Energy Method 31 Erik Carton and Jaap Weerheijm The Effect of Powder Oxygen Content on the Morphology of Silicon Carbide Densified via Spark Plasma Sintering 39 V. DeLucca and R. A. Haber Low Temperature Fabrication of Reaction Bonded Boron Carbide Composites Infiltrated with Al-Si Alloys 49 N. Frage, E. Oz, E. Ionash, H. Dilman, and S. Hayun Chemical Interactions in B4C/WC Powder Mixtures Heated Under Inert and Oxidizing Atmospheres 57 E. R. Shanholtz, J. C. LaSalvia, K. D. Behler, S. D. Walck, A. Giri, and K. Kuwelkar Simulation of Dwell-to-Penetration Transition for SiC Ceramics Subjected to Impact of Tungsten Long Rods 65 Jianming Yuan, Geoffrey E. B. Tan, and Wei Liang Goh The First Static and Dynamic Analysis of 3-D Printed Sintered Ceramics for Body Armor Applications 75 Tyrone Jones, Jeffrey J. Swab, and Benjamin Becker NEXT GENERATION BIOCERAMICS In Vitro Properties of Ag-Containing Calcium Phosphates 87 Ozkan Gokcekaya, Kyosuke Ueda, Takayuki Narushima, Kouetsu Ogasawara, and Hiroyasu Kanetaka The Use of Bioceramic Dental Cements—An Overview 95 Leif Hermansson and Jesper Lööf Combined Effects of Silicate, Calcium and Magnsium Ions on Osteoblast-Like Cell Functions 107 A. Obata, T. Ogasawara, S. Yamada, and T. Kasuga Bone Regeneration and Angiogenesis in Rat Calvarial Defects Implanted with Strong Porous Bioactive Glass (13-93) Scaffolds Doped with Copper or Loaded with BMP2 113 Mohamed N. Rahaman, Yinan Lin, and B. Sonny Bal Design, Fabrication and Testing of Bioactive Glass Scaffolds for Structural Bone Repair 127 Wei Xiao, Mohsen Asle Zaeem, Mohamed N. Rahaman, and B. Sonny Bal POROUS CERAMICS Effect of Membranes in Exhaust Particulate Filtration 139 J. Adler and U. Petasch Enforcing of Mechanical Properties of Alumina Foams 149 Bodo Zierath, Peter Greil, Martin Stumpf, and Tobias Fey 3D Mapping of Density and Crack Propagation Through Sintering of Catalyst Tablets by X-Ray Tomography 163 H. S. Jacobsen, A. Puig-Molina, N. Dalskov, and H. L. Frandsen Author Index 171