Hardness/toughness relationship for SiC armor

Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 401-410

  Ray, Darin ^a   Flinders, Marc ^a   Anderson, Angela ^a   Cutler, Raymond A ^a  

^a CERAMATEC INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVES; BALLISTICS; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; HARDNESS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SINTERING;

BETA TO ALPHA TRANSITION; SINGLE EDGE PRECRACKED BEAM;

SILICON CARBIDE;

EID: 0344465942     PISSN: 01966219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470294802.ch58     Document Type: Conference Paper

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