Advances In Ceramic Armor Vi: Ceramic Engineering And Science Proceedings, Volume 31, Issue 5

Introduction.

Inspecting Composite Ceramic Armor Using Advanced Signal Processing Together with Phased Array Ultrasound (J. S. Steckenrider, W. A. Ellingson, E.R. Koehl, and T. J. Meitzler).

A Comparison of NDE Methods for Inspection of Composite Ceramic Armor (W. A. Ellingson and E.R. Koehl, T. J. Meitzler, L. P. Franks, and J. S. Steckenrider).

NDT Characterization of Boron Carbide for Ballistic Applications (Dimosthenis Liaptsis, Ian Cooper, Nick Ludford, Alec Gunner, Mike Williams, David Willis, Colin Roberson, Lucian Falticeanu, and Peter Brown).

Advanced Nondestructive Ultrasound Characterization of Transparent Spinel (A. R. Portune and R. A. Haber).

Optimization of a Portable Microwave Interference Scanning System for Nondestructive Testing of Multi-Layered Dielectric Materials (K. F. Schmidt, Jr., J. R. Little, Jr., W. A. Ellingson, L. P. Franks, and W. Green).

Corrective Techniques for the Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation of Ceramic Materials (S. Bottiglieri and R. A. Haber).

Quantitative Evaluation of Structural Damage in Lightweight Armor Materials Via XCT (William H. Green, Kyu C. Cho, Jonathan S. Montgomery, and Herbert Miller).

Static and Dynamic Properties of Mg/Ceramic MMCs (M. K. Aghajanian, A. L. McCormick, A. L. Marshall, W. M. Waggoner, and P. K Karandikar).

Impact Study of AIN-AION Composite (Kakoli Das, Monamul Haque Dafadar, Rajesh Kumar Varma, and Sampad Kumar Biswas).

Ballistic Evaluation and Damage Characterization of Metal-Ceramic Interpenetrating Composites for Light Armor Applications (Hong Chang, Jon Binner, and Rebecca Higginson).

Effect of an Interface on Dynamic Crack Propagation (Hwun Park and Weinong Chen).

Dynamic Equation of State and Strength of Boron Carbide (Dennis E. Grady).

Multiscale Modeling of Armor Ceramics (Reuben H. Kraft, Iskander Batyrev, Sukbin Lee, A. D. Rollett, and Betsy Rice).

Future Transparent Materials Evaluated through Parametric Analysis (Costas G. Fountzoulas and James M. Sands).

Nano-Processing for Larger Fine-Grained Windows of Transparent Spinel (Andreas Krell, Thomas Hutzler, Jens Klimke, and Annegret Potthoff).

Experimental Methods for Characterization and Evaluation of Transparent Armor Materials (E. Strassburger, M. Hunzinger, J. W. McCauley, and P. Patel).

Method for Producing SiC Armor Tiles of Higher Performance at Lower Cost (Bhanu Chelluri, Edward Knoth, Edward Schumaker, and Lisa P. Franks).

Development of Biomorphic SiSiC- and C/SiSiC-Materials for Lightweight Armor (Bernhard Heidenreich, Matteo Crippa, Heinz Voggenreiter Elmar Straßburger, Heiner Gedon, and Marco Nordmann).

Influence of Impurities on Stacking Fault Dynamics in SiC under External Loading (Vladislav Domnich and Richard A Haber).

Evolution of the AIN Distribution during Sintering of Aluminium Nitride Doped Silicon Carbide (N. Ur-rehman, P. Brown, and L. J. Vandeperre).

Microstructure, Mechanical Properties, and Performance of Magnesium Aluminum Boride (MgAIB₁₄) (Michael L. Whittaker, Raymond A. Cutler, James Campbell, and Jerry La Salvia).

Microstructural Development and Phase Changes in Reaction Bonded Boron Carbide (P. G. Karandikar, S. Wong, G. Evans, and M. K. Aghajanian).

Author Index.