{"product_id":"advances-in-ceramic-armor-iv-volume-29-issue-6-isbn-9780470344972","title":"Advances in Ceramic Armor IV, Volume 29, Issue 6","description":"This volume provides a one-stop resource, compiling current research on ceramic armor and addressing the challenges facing armor manufacturers. It is a collection of papers from The American Ceramic Society s 32nd International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, January 27-February 1, 2008. Topics include novel materials concepts for both vehicle and body armors, transparent ceramics for impact resistance, and more. This is a valuable, up-to-date resource for researchers in industry, government, or academia who are working with ceramic armor.  Preface.  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTRANSPARENT GLASSES AND CERAMICS.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMesomechanical Constitutive Relations for Glass and Ceramic Armor (\u003ci\u003eD.R. Curran, D.A. Shockey, and J.W. Simons\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOptimizing Transparent Armor Design Subject to Projectile Impact Conditions (\u003ci\u003eXin Sun, Kevin C. Lai, Tara Gorsich, and Douglas W. Templeton\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePhysics of Glass Failure during Rod Penetration (\u003ci\u003eD.A. Shockey, D. Bergmannshoff, D.R. Curran, and J.W. Simons\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdhesive Bond Evaluation in Laminated Safety Glass using Guided Wave Attenuation Measurements (\u003ci\u003eS. Hou and H. Reis\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eApplying Modeling Tools to Predict Performance of Transparent Ceramic Laminate Armors (\u003ci\u003eC.G. Fountzoulas, J.M. Sands, G.A. Gilde, and P.J. Patel\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Economic Comparison of Hot Pressing vs. Pressureless Sintering for Transparent Spinel Armor (\u003ci\u003eA. LaRoche, K. Rozenburg, J. Voyles, L. Fehrenbacher, and Gary Gilde\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdvances in Ballistic Performance of Commercially Available Saint-Gobain Sapphire Transparent Armor Composites (\u003ci\u003eChristopher D. Jones, Jeffrey B. Rioux, John W. Locher, Vincent Pluen, and Matthias Mandelartz\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDefect Free Spinel Ceramics of High Strength and High Transparency (\u003ci\u003eJuan L. Sepulveda, Raouf 0. Loutfy, and Sekyung Chang\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOPAQUE CERAMICS.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecent Results on the Fundamental Performance of a Hot-Pressed Silicon Carbide Impacted by Sub-scale Long-Rod Penetrators (\u003ci\u003eJeny C. LaSalvia, Brian Leavy, Herbert T. Miller, Joshua R. Houskamp, and Ryan C. McCuiston\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInstrumented Hertzian Indentation Study of Two Commerical Silicon Carbides (\u003ci\u003eH.T. Miller, R.C. McCuiston, and J.C. LaSalvia\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eApparent Yield Strength of Hot-Pressed Sics (\u003ci\u003eW.L. Daloz, A.A. Wereszczak, and O.M. Jadaan\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMicrostructural Examination and Quasi-Static Property Determination of Sintered Armor Grade Sic (\u003ci\u003eMemduh V. Demirbas, Richard A. Haber, and Raymond E. Brennan\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eQuantitative Characterization of Localized Amplitude Variations in Silicon Carbide Ceramics using Ultrasound C-Scan Imaging (\u003ci\u003eRaymond Brennan, James McCauley, Richard Haber, and Dale Niesz\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGrain Boundary Engineering of Silicon Carbide by Means of Coprecipitation (\u003ci\u003eSteven Mercurio, Mihaela Jitianu, and Richard A. Haber\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Possible Roles of Stoichiometry, Microstructure, and Defects on the Mechanical Behavior of Boron Carbide (\u003ci\u003eRyan McCuiston, Jeny LaSalvia, James McCauley, and William Mayo\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Review of Ceramics for Armor Applications (\u003ci\u003eP.G. Karandikar, G. Evans, S. Wong, M.K. Aghajanian, and M. Sennett\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNOVEL EVALUATION AND CHARACTERIZATION.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Portable Microwave Scanning Technique for Nondestructive Testing of Multilayered Dielectric Materials (\u003ci\u003eKarl Schmidt, Jack Little, and William A. Ellingson\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBallistic Damage Assessment of a Thin Compound Curved B4C Ceramic Plate using XCT (\u003ci\u003eJ.M. Wells and N.L. Rupert\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvaluation of Ballistically-Induced Damage in Ceramic Targets by X-Ray Computed Tomography (\u003ci\u003eWilliam H. Green, Herbert T. Miller, Jerry C. LaSalvia, Datta P. Dandekar, and Daniel Casem\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAutomated Nondestructive Evaluation System for Hard Armor Protective Inserts of Body Armor (\u003ci\u003eNicholas Haynes, Karl Masters, Chris Perritt, David Simmons, James Zheng, and James E. Youngberg\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnalysis of Hardness Indentation Size Effect (ISE) Curves in Ceramics: A New Approach to Determine Plasticity (\u003ci\u003eTrevor E. Wilantewicz and James W. 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