Aluminum foam integral armor: A new dimension in armor design

Composite Structures

Volumn 52, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 381-395

  Gama, Bazle A ^a,b   Bogetti, Travis A ^c   Fink, Bruce K ^c   Yu, Chin Jye ^b   Dennis Claar, T ^b   Eifert, Harald H ^b   Gillespie Jr , John W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ballistic testing; Closed cell aluminum foam; Composite integral armor(CIA); Dynamic deflection; Multi step processing; Stress wave propagation

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ARMOR; DEFLECTION (STRUCTURES); DEFORMATION; ENERGY ABSORPTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOAMS; IMPACT RESISTANCE; STIFFNESS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

ALUMINUM FOAMS; BALLISTIC IMPACT; COMPOSITE INTEGRAL ARMOR;

METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES;

BODY ARMOR; FOAM;

EID: 0035338769     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0263-8223(01)00029-0     Document Type: Article

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