Design and material selection guidelines and strategies for transparent armor systems

Materials and Design

Volumn 34, Issue , 2012, Pages 808-819

  Grujicic, M ^a   Bell, W C ^a   Pandurangan, B ^a  

^a Clemson University   (United States)

Author keywords

Ballistics; Design; Transparent armor

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; BALLISTIC PROTECTION; COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT; FUNCTIONAL LAYER; LEAD TIME; LEGACY APPROACH; LIGHT WEIGHT; LOW COSTS; MATERIAL SELECTION; MULTI-HIT; OPTICAL TRANSPARENCY; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; TRANSPARENT ARMORS; TRANSPARENT MATERIAL; TRANSPARENT-ARMOR; US ARMED FORCES; VEHICLE OCCUPANTS;

ARMOR; BALLISTICS; DESIGN; LEGACY SYSTEMS;

MILITARY VEHICLES;

EID: 82455199273     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2011.07.007     Document Type: Article

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