Beyond hardness: Ceramics and ceramic-based composites for protection

Beyond hardness: Ceramics and ceramic-based composites for protection

Because of their lightweight and high hardness, ceramics have been successfully used in protection technologies for over 40 years. The high hardness of a ceramic enables it to break, fragment, and deform impacting projectiles. This paper deals with a number of issues connected to the application of...

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Veröffentlicht in:JOM (1989) 2010-01, Vol.62 (1), p.16-23
Hauptverfasser: LaSalvia, J. C., Campbell, J., Swab, J. J., McCauley, J. W.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Aircraft
Armor
Ballistics
Ceramics
Chemistry/Food Science
Deformation
Earth Sciences
Engineering
Environment
Geometry
Grain boundaries
Investigations
Load
Materials for Crashworthiness and Defense
Materials science
Phenomenology
Physical properties
Physics
Silicon carbide
Stress-strain curves
Studies
Velocity
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Zusammenfassung:Because of their lightweight and high hardness, ceramics have been successfully used in protection technologies for over 40 years. The high hardness of a ceramic enables it to break, fragment, and deform impacting projectiles. This paper deals with a number of issues connected to the application of ceramics to ballistic protection, including ceramic hardness, inelastic deformation mechanisms, basic ballistic phenomenology and experimentation, ceramic damage due to ballistic impact, performance/failure maps based upon specific damage/failure mechanisms, and what possible future types of ceramics the suppression of these damage/failure mechanisms guide us to.
ISSN:1047-4838
1543-1851
DOI:10.1007/s11837-010-0004-z