Advances in Ceramic Armor III, Volume 28, Issue 5

Papers from The American Ceramic Society's 31st International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, January 21-26, 2007. Topics include transparent ceramics for impact resistance, protection against mine blast and fragments, challenges facing ceramic armor manufacturers, novel material concepts and development of valid armor design and characterization tools to predict performance for air and ground vehicles as well as the individual soldier.

Preface ix Introduction xi GENERAL/OVERVIEW Research in Sweden on Dwell in Ceramics 3 Patrik Lundberg The Influence of Tile Size on the Ballistic Performance of a Ceramic-Faced Polymer 19 Paul J. Hazell, Mauricio Moutinho, Colin J. Roberson, and Nicholas Moore Static and Dynamic Indentation Response of Fine Grained Boron Carbide 29 Ghatu Subhash, Dipankar Ghosh, and Spandan Maiti Hierarchy of Key Influences on the Ballistic Strength of Opaque and Transparent Armor 45 Andreas Krell and Elrnar Strassburger Concepts for Energy Absorption and Dissipation in Ceramic Armor 57 Dong-Kyu Kim, Jonathan Bell, Dechang Jia, Waltraud M. Kriven, and Victor Kelsey Some Practical Requirements for Alumina Armor Systems 71 K. Sujirote, K. Dateraksa, and N. Chollacoop GLASSES AND TRANSPARENT CERAMICS Limit Analyses for Surface Crack Instantaneous Propagation Angles in Elastic Hertzian Field 93 Xin Sun and Moharnrnad A. Khaleel Dynamic Failure of a Borosilicate Glass Under Compression/Shear Loading 103 X. Nie and W. Chen Ballistic Performance of Commercially Available Saint-Gobain Sapphire Transparent Armor Composites 113 Christopher D. Jones, Jeffrey 8. Rioux, John W. Locher, Vincent Pluen, and Mattias Mandelartz OPAQUE CERAMICS Synthesis of Ceramic Eutectics Using Microwave Processing 127 Anton V. Polotai, Jiping Cheng, Dinesh K. Agrawal, Elizabeth C. Dickey, and Sheldon Cytron Hot Pressing of Boron Carbide Using Metallic Carbides as Additives 135 Pedro August0 de S.L. Cosentino, Celio A. Costa, Jose Brant de Campos, and Roberto Ribeiro de Avillez Spatial Distribution of Defects in Silicon Carbide and its Correlation with Localized Property Measurements 143 Memduh V. Dernirbas, Richard A. Haber, and Raymond E. Brennan Silicon Carbide Microstructure Improvements for Armor Applications 155 Steven Mercurio and Richard A. Haber The Effect of Si Content on the Properties of B,C-SIC-Si Composites 161 P. Chhillar, M. K. Aghajanian, D. D. Marchant, R. A. Haber, and M. Sennett DAMAGE AND TESTING Preliminary Investigation of Damage in an Armor-Grade B4C Induced by Quasi-Static Hertzian Indentation 171 R.C. McCuiston, H.T. Miller, and J.C. LaSalvia In-Situ Fragment Analysis with X-ray Computed Tomography, XCT 181 J.M. Wells Ballistically-Induced Damage in Ceramic Targets as Revealed by X-ray Computed Tomography 193 H.T. Miller, W.H. Green, and J.C. LaSalvia On Continuing the Evolution of XCT Engineering Capabilities for Impact Damage Diagnostics 203 J.M. Wells Elastic Property Mapping Using Ultrasonic Imaging 213 Raymond Brennan, Richard Haber, Dale Niesz, George Sigel, and James McCauley Author Index 223