Ceramic Armor Materials By Design

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Ceramic armor materials by design. This book is a comprehensive treatise on the latest materials used in armor and protection. The most common materials are alumina boron carbide silicon carbide and titanium diboride. Ceramics are often used where light weight is important as they weigh less than metal alloys for a given degree of resistance. Silicon carbide is although much lighter still heavy enough to be burdensome.

Quantifying and optimizing ceramic armor systems require attention to the following factors where rha armor steel is the reference material in all cases. While steel armor technically is a stronger material than ceramic there are certain types of bullets particularly ar 15 rounds that impact steel armor more than ceramic. 9781118381106 ebook von james w. Ceramic armor materials by design symposium wailea mauli hawaii.

But ceramic body armor also offers impressive protection thanks to ultra durable attributes. This volume contains the proceedings ofthe ceramic armor materials by design symposium held at the pac rim iv international conference on advanced ceramics and glasses held novembe 4 8 200r 1 in wailea maui hawaii. Ceramic armor is armor used by armored vehicles and in personal armor to resist projectile penetration through high hardness and compressive strength. The design development testing and use of various ceramic materials used in armor protection is explained here.

In 1998 the army formally approved a new basic research strategic research objective sro armor materials by design. Mccauley andrew crowson william a. Alumina is far too heavy to such an extent that even steel armor is now giving it a run for its money. Get this from a library.

The following are some of the key applications of ceramic armor. Armor systems made of ceramic and composite materials are widely used in ballistic applications to defeat armor piercing projectiles. The need for lightweight thin and low cost personal protection systems to defeat high end threats is a real challenging need. A typical us soldier in the battlefield is protected by an armored tactical vest that weighs between 30 and 35 lb.

The ballistic protection applications of the ceramic armor include transport aircraft armor protection land vehicles armor protection ac 130u gunships armor protection helicopter armor protection and body armor xsapi esapi sapi for military and police protection. The best grades of boron carbide although nearly 40 lighter than alumina and more than. Areal density measured in kg m 2 the lower this is the more weight efficient the armor. Ceramic armor materials by design.

All three of these old ceramic armor materials have their shortcomings.