Preface |
Introduction |
Transparent Glasses and Ceramics |
Mesomechanical Constitutive Relations for Glass and Ceramic Armor / D.R. Curran ; D.A. Shockey ; J.W. Simons |
Optimizing Transparent Armor Design Subject to Projectile Impact Conditions / Xin Sun ; Kevin C. Lai ; Tara Gorsich ; Douglas W. Templeton |
Physics of Glass Failure during Rod Penetration / D. Bergmannshoff |
Adhesive Bond Evaluation in Laminated Safety Glass using Guided Wave Attenuation Measurements / S. Hou ; H. Reis |
Applying Modeling Tools to Predict Performance of Transparent Ceramic Laminate Armors / C.G. Fountzoulas ; J.M. Sands ; G.A. Gilde ; P.J. Patel |
An Economic Comparison of Hot Pressing vs. Pressureless Sintering for Transparent Spinel Armor / A. LaRoche ; K. Rozenburg ; J. Voyles ; L. Fehrenbacher ; Gary Gilde |
Advances in Ballistic Performance of Commercially Available Saint-Gobain Sapphire Transparent Armor Composites / Christopher D. Jones ; Jeffrey B. Rioux ; John W. Locher ; Vincent Pluen ; Matthias Mandelartz |
Defect Free Spinel Ceramics of High Strength and High Transparency / Juan L. Sepulveda ; Raouf O. Loutfy ; Sekyung Chang |
Opaque Ceramics |
Recent Results on the Fundamental Performance of a Hot-Pressed Silicon Carbide Impacted by Sub-Scale Long-Rod Penetrators / Jerry C. LaSalvia ; Brian Leavy ; Herbert T. Miller ; Joshua R. Houskamp ; Ryan C. McCuiston |
Instrumented Hertzian Indentation Study of Two Commerical Silicon Carbides / H.T. Miller ; R.C. McCuiston ; J.C. LaSalvia |
Apparent Yield Strength of Hot-Pressed SiCs / W.L. Daloz ; A.A. Wereszczak ; O.M. Jadaan |
Microstructural Examination and Quasi-Static Property Determination of Sintered Armor Grade SiC / Memduh V. Demirbas ; Richard A. Haber ; Raymond E. Brennan |
Quantitative Characterization of Localized Amplitude Variations in Silicon Carbide Ceramics using Ultrasound C-Scan Imaging / Raymond Brennan ; James McCauley ; Richard Haber ; Dale Niesz |
Grain Boundary Engineering of Silicon Carbide by Means of Coprecipitation / Steven Mercurio ; Mihaela Jitianu |
The Possible Roles of Stoichiometry, Microstructure, and Defects on the Mechanical Behavior of Boron Carbide / Ryan McCuiston ; Jerry LaSalvia ; William Mayo |
A Review of Ceramics for Armor Applications / P.G. Karandikar ; G. Evans ; S. Wong ; M.K. Aghajanian ; M. Sennett |
Novel Evaluation and Characterization |
A Portable Microwave Scanning Technique for Nondestructive Testing of Multilayered Dielectric Materials / Karl Schmidt ; Jack Little ; William A. Ellingson |
Ballistic Damage Assessment of a Thin Compound Curved B[subscript 4]C Ceramic Plate using XCT / J.M. Wells ; N.L. Rupert |
Evaluation of Ballistically-Induced Damage in Ceramic Targets by X-Ray Computed Tomography / William H. Green ; Datta P. Dandekar ; Daniel Casem |
Automated Nondestructive Evaluation System for Hard Armor Protective Inserts of Body Armor / Nicholas Haynes ; Karl Masters ; Chris Perritt ; David Simmons ; James Zheng ; James E. Youngberg |
Analysis of Hardness Indentation Size Effect (ISE) Curves in Ceramics: A New Approach to Determine Plasticity / Trevor E. Wilantewicz ; James W. McCauley |
Author Index |
Preface |
Introduction |
Transparent Glasses and Ceramics |