Applications of ceramics in armor products

Key Engineering Materials

Volumn , Issue 122-124, 1996, Pages 333-342

  Matchen, B ^a  

^a NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alumina; Boron Carbide; Ceramic Armor; Glass Reinforced Plastics; Kevlar Reinforced Plastics; Projectile; Silicon Carbide; Titanium Diboride

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; ARMOR; BORON CARBIDE; CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES; GLASS FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; PROJECTILES; SILICON CARBIDE; TITANIUM COMPOUNDS;

CERAMIC COMPOSITE ARMOR SYSTEMS; KEVLAR; MAKESHIFT ARMOR; PROTECTIVE ARMOR; TITANIUM DIBORIDE;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0030385096     PISSN: 10139826     EISSN: 16629795     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. B. Matchen Final Report, Joint U.S.-Canadian Defense Development Sharing Project on Ceramic Armor Material, Norton Research Corp. Ltd., Niagara Falls, Ontario, Contract No. DAAG46-68-C- 0096 (U.S.) and Contract No. 91-522; Serial No. 4 ME-16 (Canadian), May, 1969.
2. M. L. Wilkins, C. F. Cline and C. A. Honodel, Fourth Progress Report of Light Armor Program, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Livermore, California, Report No. UCRL 50694, June 1969.
3. Paul B. Gardner, Ceramic Armor - A Status Report, Norton company, Worcester, October, 1973.
4. Paul B. Gardner, Advances in Ceramics Composite Armor Technology, Paper presented at the American Defence Preparedness Association Symposium of Survivability and Vulnerability, October, 1975.
5. S. P. Desjardins et al., Crashworthy Armored Crewseat for the UH-60A Black Hawk, Joint Paper by Norton and Simula, Presented at 35th Annual National Forum of the American Helicopter Society, W ashington, D.C., May 1979.
6. Joel P. Moskowitz, Ballistic Armor with Spall Shield Containing an outer Layer of Plasticized Resin, US Patent 4,739,690, April 1988.