Advances in Ceramic Armor V30 Issue 5

Preface. Introduction. Impact, Penetration and Material Modeling. Fragmentation of Ceramics in the Ballistic Environment. ( Dennis E. Grady ). Flow Behavior of GLass at the Tip of a Penetrator. Rheology of Powder and Porous Media In Modeling of Penetration into Porous Ceramic. ( D.A. Shockey, D. Bergmannshoft, D.R. Curran, and J. W. Simons ). Computer Modeling of Shock Wave Propagation in SiC-Sample. ( B.A. Galonov, V.V. Kartuzov, and S.M. Ivanov ). Ballistic IMpact Damage Observations in a Hot-pressed Boron Carbide. ( V.L. Bekenev, V.V. Kartuzov, E.V. Kartuzov, and H.V. Hachataian ). Characterization of Mictrostructural Damgae in Silicon Carbide Processed via Modified Chemical Vapor Deposition. ( J.C. LaSalvia, R.B. Leavy, J.R. Houskamp, H.T. Miller, D.E. MacKenzie, and J. Campbell ). Material Concepts, Processes and Characterization. Effects of Grain Size, Shape and Second Phases on Properties of Sintered SiC. ( H.T. Miller, J.C. LaSalvia, R.B. Leavy, and D.E. MacKenzie ). Indenter Elastic Modulus and Hertzian Ring Crack Iniation. ( K.T. Strong, Jr., A.A. Wereszezak, and W.L. Dalez, and O. M. Jadaan ). High Frequency Ultrasound of Alumina for High Strain-Rate Applications. ( S. Bottiglieri and R.A. Haber ). The effect of Particle Size, Particle Loading and Thermal Processing Conditions on the Properties of Alumina Reinforced Aluminum Metal Matrix Composites. ( Allyn L. McCormick, Michael K. Aghajanian, Andrew L. Marshall ). Pressureless Sintering of B4C-SiC Composites for Armor Applications. ( Rosa Marla da Rocha, Francisco C. L. de Melo ). Applications of NDE. A Portable Microwave Interference Scanning System for Nondestructive Testing of Multi-Layered Diclectric Materials. ( K.F. Schmidt, Jr., J.R. Little, Jr., W.A. Ellingson, and W.Green ). Destructive Testing and Nondestructive Evaluation of Alumina Structural Ceramics. ( Raymond E. Brennan, William H. Green, James M. Sands ). Nondestructive Evaluation of as Fabricated and Damged Encapsulated Ceramics. ( William H. Green, Raymond Brennan, and Robert H. Carter ). Microstructural Study of Sintered SiC via High Fequency Ultrasound Spectroscopy. ( A.R. Portune and R.A. Haber ). Impact Damage Analysis in a Level III Flexible Body Armor Vest using XCT Diagnostics. ( Joe Wells. Nevin Rupert, and Murray Neal ). Transparent Armor. Impact onto Glass and Glass Ceramic Bars. ( Stephan Bless, John Tolman, Scott Levinson, and Ian Polyzois ). Numerical Study of the Effect of Surface Stresses of Transparent Ceramics of Laminated Targets for Military Armor Applications. ( Costas G. Fountzoulas, James M. Sands, Gary Gilda, Parimal J. Patel ). Analyses of Various Damage Mechanisms in Transparent Armor Subject to Projectile Impact. ( Kevin C. Lai, Xin Sun, and Douglas W. Templeton ). Pressureless Reaction of Sintering of AION Using Aluminum Orthophospage as a Transient Liquid Phase. ( Michael Bakas, Henry Chu ). Alon Transparent Armor. ( Lee M. Goldman, Robyn Foti, Mark Smith, Uday Kashalikar, and Suri Sastri ). Author Index.