Advances in Ceramic Armor III, Volume 28, Issue 5

Download or read book Advances in Ceramic Armor III, Volume 28, Issue 5 written by Lisa Prokurat Franks and published by Wiley-American Ceramic Society. This book was released on 2007-11-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers from The American Ceramic Society's 31st International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, January 21-26, 2007. Topics include transparent ceramics for impact resistance, protection against mine blast and fragments, challenges facing ceramic armor manufacturers, novel material concepts and development of valid armor design and characterization tools to predict performance for air and ground vehicles as well as the individual soldier.