Advances in Ceramic Armor VI - Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings V31 Issue 5

Preface. Introduction. Inspecting Composite Ceramic Armor Using Advanced Signal Processing Together with Phased Array Ultrasound ( J. S. Steckenrider, W. A. Ellingson, E.R. Koehl, and T. J. Meitzler ). A Comparison of NDE Methods for Inspection of Composite Ceramic Armor ( W. A. Ellingson and E.R. Koehl, T. J. Meitzler, L. P. Franks, and J. S. Steckenrider ). NDT Characterization of Boron Carbide for Ballistic Applications ( Dimosthenis Liaptsis, Ian Cooper, Nick Ludford, Alec Gunner, Mike Williams, David Willis, Colin Roberson, Lucian Falticeanu, and Peter Brown ). Advanced Nondestructive Ultrasound Characterization of Transparent Spinel ( A. R. Portune and R. A. Haber ). Optimization of a Portable Microwave Interference Scanning System for Nondestructive Testing of Multi-Layered Dielectric Materials ( K. F. Schmidt, Jr., J. R. Little, Jr., W. A. Ellingson, L. P. Franks, and W. Green ). Corrective Techniques for the Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation of Ceramic Materials ( S. Bottiglieri and R. A. Haber ). Quantitative Evaluation of Structural Damage in Lightweight Armor Materials Via XCT ( William H. Green, Kyu C. Cho, Jonathan S. Montgomery, and Herbert Miller ). Static and Dynamic Properties of Mg/Ceramic MMCs ( M. K. Aghajanian, A. L. McCormick, A. L. Marshall, W. M. Waggoner, and P. K Karandikar ). Impact Study of AIN-AION Composite ( Kakoli Das, Monamul Haque Dafadar, Rajesh Kumar Varma, and Sampad Kumar Biswas ). Ballistic Evaluation and Damage Characterization of Metal-Ceramic Interpenetrating Composites for Light Armor Applications ( Hong Chang, Jon Binner, and Rebecca Higginson ). Effect of an Interface on Dynamic Crack Propagation ( Hwun Park and Weinong Chen ). Dynamic Equation of State and Strength of Boron Carbide ( Dennis E. Grady ). Multiscale Modeling of Armor Ceramics ( Reuben H. Kraft, Iskander Batyrev, Sukbin Lee, A. D. Rollett, and Betsy Rice ). Future Transparent Materials Evaluated through Parametric Analysis ( Costas G. Fountzoulas and James M. Sands ). Nano-Processing for Larger Fine-Grained Windows of Transparent Spinel ( Andreas Krell, Thomas Hutzler, Jens Klimke, and Annegret Potthoff ). Experimental Methods for Characterization and Evaluation of Transparent Armor Materials ( E. Strassburger, M. Hunzinger, J. W. McCauley, and P. Patel ). Method for Producing SiC Armor Tiles of Higher Performance at Lower Cost ( Bhanu Chelluri, Edward Knoth, Edward Schumaker, and Lisa P. Franks ). Development of Biomorphic SiSiC- and C/SiSiC-Materials for Lightweight Armor ( Bernhard Heidenreich, Matteo Crippa, Heinz Voggenreiter Elmar Strassburger, Heiner Gedon, and Marco Nordmann ). Influence of Impurities on Stacking Fault Dynamics in SiC under External Loading ( Vladislav Domnich and Richard A Haber ). Evolution of the AIN Distribution during Sintering of Aluminium Nitride Doped Silicon Carbide ( N. Ur-rehman, P. Brown, and L. J. Vandeperre ). Microstructure, Mechanical Properties, and Performance of Magnesium Aluminum Boride (MgAIB 14 ) ( Michael L. Whittaker, Raymond A. Cutler, James Campbell, and Jerry La Salvia ). Microstructural Development and Phase Changes in Reaction Bonded Boron Carbide ( P. G. Karandikar, S. Wong, G. Evans, and M. K. Aghajanian ). Author Index.