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Book SynopsisCeramic Engineering and Science Proceedings Volume 34, Issue 5 - Advances in Ceramic Armor IX
A collection of 14 papers from The American Ceramic Society''s 37th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, January 27-February 1, 2013.This issue includes papers presented in the Armor Ceramics Symposium on topics such as Manufacturing; High-Rate Real-Time Characterization; Microstructural Design; Nondestructive Characterization; and Phenomenology and Mechanics of Ceramics Subjected to Ballistic Impact.
Table of ContentsPreface vii
Introduction ix
Responses of Siliceous Materials to High Pressure 1
A. A. Wereszczak, T. G. Morrissey, M. K. Ferber, K. P. Bortle, E. A. Rodgers, G. Tsoi, J. M. Montgomery, Y. Vohra, and S. Toller
Edge-On Impact Investigation of Fracture Propagation in Boron Carbide 15
E. Strassburger
Macroscopic Assessment of High Pressure Failure of B4C and B4C/SiC Composites 25
S. M. Salamone, P. G. Karandikar, A. L. Marshall, M. K. Aghajanian, J. Q. Zheng, and S. E. Homer
Effect of Prestressing on the Ballistic Performance of Alumina Ceramics: Experiments and Modeling 31
Aaron H. Gassman, Vitaly Paris, Lev Levin, Zvi Asaf, Avi Ya'akobovich, Eylam Ran, and Felix Aizik
Geometrical Effect on Damage in Reaction Bonded Ceramic Composites having Experienced High Strain Rate Impact 41
Andrew L. Marshall, Prashant G. Karandikar, Brian P. Givens, Anthony F. Liszkiewicz, Raul Segura, Eric M. Klier, and Kevin J. Doherty
Optimizing the Arrangement of Ceramic Tile Periodic Arrays for Armor Applications using a Genetic Algorithm 53
Michael C. Golt and Matthew S. Bratcher
Al/Al203 MMCs and Macrocomposites for Armor Applications 63
P. Karandikar, E. Klier, M. Watkins, Brandon McWilliams, and M. Aghajanian
Mechanical Response Anisotropy in Hot-Pressed Silicon Carbide 75
A. A. Wereszczak, D. J. Vuono, K. P. Bortle, P. J. Ritt, J. J. Swab, and J. Campbell
Comparison of Armor Ceramics Made by Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) and Pressureless Sintering 85
P. Karandikar, S. Wong, M. Duke, R. Haber, Minn Vu, and J. Singh
Pressureless Sintering of SiC-B4C Composites 101
L.J. Vandeperre and J.H. Teo
Development of Transparent Polycrystalline Beta-Silicon Carbide Ceramic using Field Assisted Sintering Technology 109
Guillermo R. Villalobos, Shyam Bayya, Jasbinder S. Sanghera, Michael P. Hunt, Michael K. Cinibulk, Carmen M. Carney, Kristin A. Keller, Bryan M. Sadowski, and Ishwar D. Aggarwal
Densification of Synthesized Boron Carbide Powders using SPS 115
M. Fatih Toksoy, William Rafaniello, Richard Haber, and Steve Miller
Consolidation of Aluminum Magnesium Boride (AIMgB14) by Pulsed Electric Current Sintering (PECS) Technique 123
Nesredin Kedir, Gary Gilde, and Kyu Cho
Ultrasonic Nondestructive Characterization of Transparent Spinel Microstructure 133
V. DeLucca and R. A. Haber
Author Index 143
