Advances in Ceramic Armor IV, Volume 29,

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.

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Transparent Glasses and Ceramics
Mesomechanical Constitutive Relations for Glass and Ceramic Armor	p. 3
Optimizing Transparent Armor Design Subject to Projectile Impact Conditions	p. 15
Physics of Glass Failure during Rod Penetration	p. 23
Adhesive Bond Evaluation in Laminated Safety Glass using Guided Wave Attenuation Measurements	p. 33
Applying Modeling Tools to Predict Performance of Transparent Ceramic Laminate Armors	p. 45
An Economic Comparison of Hot Pressing vs. Pressureless Sintering for Transparent Spinel Armor	p. 55
Advances in Ballistic Performance of Commercially Available Saint-Gobain Sapphire Transparent Armor Composites	p. 63
Defect Free Spinel Ceramics of High Strength and High Transparency	p. 75
Opaque Ceramics
Recent Results on the Fundamental Performance of a Hot-Pressed Silicon Carbide Impacted by Sub-Scale Long-Rod Penetrators	p. 89
Instrumented Hertzian Indentation Study of Two Commerical Silicon Carbides	p. 99
Apparent Yield Strength of Hot-Pressed SiCs	p. 107
Microstructural Examination and Quasi-Static Property Determination of Sintered Armor Grade SiC	p. 119
Quantitative Characterization of Localized Amplitude Variations in Silicon Carbide Ceramics using Ultrasound C-Scan Imaging	p. 129
Grain Boundary Engineering of Silicon Carbide by Means of Coprecipitation	p. 141
The Possible Roles of Stoichiometry, Microstructure, and Defects on the Mechanical Behavior of Boron Carbide	p. 153
A Review of Ceramics for Armor Applications	p. 163
Novel Evaluation and Characterization
A Portable Microwave Scanning Technique for Nondestructive Testing of Multilayered Dielectric Materials	p. 179
Ballistic Damage Assessment of a Thin Compound Curved B[subscript 4]C Ceramic Plate using XCT	p. 191
Evaluation of Ballistically-Induced Damage in Ceramic Targets by X-Ray Computed Tomography	p. 199
Automated Nondestructive Evaluation System for Hard Armor Protective Inserts of Body Armor	p. 211
Analysis of Hardness Indentation Size Effect (ISE) Curves in Ceramics: A New Approach to Determine Plasticity	p. 219
Author Index	p. 229
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