Advances in Ceramic Armor II: Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings, Volume 27, Issue 7

These proceedings contain current research from industry, academia and government organizations, working on opaque and transparent ceramic armor. Papers on novel materials concepts for both vehicle and body armors are included, as well as papers that explore the relationship between computational modeling and property testing.
These papers were presented at the Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, January 22-27, 2006, Cocoa Beach, Florida. Organized and sponsored by The American Ceramic Society and The American Ceramic Society's Engineering Ceramics Division in conjunction with the Nuclear and Environmental Technology Division.Content:
Chapter 1 A Review of Computational Ceramic Armor Modeling (pages 1–18): Charles E. Anderson
Chapter 2 Biomorphic Sisic?Materials for Lightweight Armour (pages 20–31): Bernhard Heidenreich, Michaela Gahr, Dr. Ing. Ekkehard Lutz and Elmar Stra?urger
Chapter 3 Evaluation of SiC Armor Tile Using Ultrasonic Techniques (pages 33–41): J. Scott Steckenrider, William A. Ellingson, Rachel Lipanovich, Jeffrey Wheeler and Chris Deemer
Chapter 4 Spherical Indentation of SiC (pages 43–57): A. A. Wereszczak and K. E. Johanns
Chapter 5 Damage Modes Correlated to the Dynamic Response of SiC?N (pages 59–68): H. Luo and W. Chen
Chapter 6 Grain Boundary Chemistry of SiC?Based Armor (pages 69–84): Edgardo Pabit, Kerry Siebein, Darryl P. Butt, Helge Heinrich, Darin Ray, Sarbjit Kaur, R. Marc Flinders and Raymond A. Cutler
Chapter 7 Effect of Microstructure and Mechanical Properties on the Ballistic Performance of SiC?Based Ceramics (pages 85–96): Darin Ray, R. Marc Flinders, Angela Anderson, Raymond A. Cutler, James Campbell and Jane W. Adams
Chapter 7 Addition of Excess Carbon to SiC to Study its Effect on Silicon Carbide (SiC) Armor (pages 97–103): Chris Ziccardi and Richard Haber
Chapter 9 Analysis of Time?Resolved Penetration of Long Rods into Glass Targets—II (pages 106–118): Charles E. Anderson, I. Sidney Chocron and Carl E. Weiss
Chapter 10 Response and Characterization of Confined Borosilicate Glass: Intact and Damaged (pages 119–130): Kathryn A. Dannemann, Arthur E. Nicholls, Charles E. Anderson, Sidney Chocron and James D. Walker
Chapter 12 Constitutive Model for Damaged Borosilicate Glass (pages 131–142): Sidney Chocron, James D. Walker, Arthur E. Nichoils, Charles E. Anderson and Kathryn A. Dannemann
Chapter 12 Reaction Sintered LiAlON (pages 143–154): Raymond A. Cutler and R. Marc Flinders
Chapter 13 Large Area EFG™ Sapphire for Transparent Armor (pages 155–163): Christopher D. Jones, Jeffrey B. Rioux, John W. Locher, Herbert E. Bates, Steven A. Zanella, Vincent Pluen and Mattias Mandelartz
Chapter 14 Relationship of Microstructure and Hardness for A12O3 Armor Materials (pages 166–178): Memduh Volkan Demirbas and Richard A. Haber
Chapter 15 Root Causes of the Performance of Boron Carbide Under Stress (pages 179–188): Giovanni Fanchini, Dale E. Niesz, Richard A. Haber, James W. McCauley and Manish Chhowalla
Chapter 16 Analysis of Texture in Controlled Shear Processed Boron Carbide (pages 189–195): D. Maiorano, R. Haber and G. Fanchini
Chapter 17 Progress in the Nondestructive Analysis of Impact Damage in TiB2 Armor Ceramics (pages 198–209): Joseph M. Wells
Chapter 18 Elastic Property Determination of WC Spheres and Estimation of Compressive Loads and Impact Velocities that Initiate their Yielding and Cracking (pages 211–223): A. A. Wereszczak
Chapter 19 On the Role of Impact Damage in Armor Ceramic Performance (pages 225–236): Joseph M. Wells
Chapter 20 The Indentation Size Effect (ISE) for Knoop Hardness in Five Ceramic Materials (pages 237–249): Trevor Wilantewicz, W. Roger Cannon and George Quinn
Chapter 21 Influence of Microstructure on the Indentation?Induced Damage in Silicon Carbide (pages 251–259): Jeffrey J. Swab, Andrew A. Wereszczak, Justin Pritchett and Kurt Johanns