Modern military operations, technology-driven war tactics, and current on-street weapons
and ammunition necessitate the development of advanced ballistic protection body armor …

A numerical technique for the simulation of pre-stressed confined ceramic targets under long
rod projectile (LRP) impact, using explicit software, AUTODYN®, is proposed. The proposed …

Stress concentrations near grain boundaries, precipitates, and similar micro‐heterogeneities
nucleate instabilities leading to macroscale fracture. As it is not practical to model each flaw …

Abstract The Knoop and Vickers indentation behaviour of spark plasma sintered SiC–5 wt.%
B 4 C, B 4 C and SiC–2.5 wt.% AlN–3 wt.% C armour ceramics have been investigated and …

A finite deformation mechanism-based thermodynamically consistent constitutive framework
is presented for describing the dynamic behaviors of brittle materials under impact loading …

The inelastic deformation mechanisms and damage features observed in structural ceramics
subjected to nonpenetrating, high‐velocity impacts are similar to those seen in quasistatic …

Sphere impact experiments are used to calibrate and validate ceramic models that include
statistical variability and/or scale effects in strength and toughness parameters. These …

To examine the effects of different core arrangements of hybrid honeycomb structures on the
penetration resistance against a vertical long-rod tungsten projectile, we conducted artillery …

Internal fracture patterns developed in silicon carbide cylindrical targets as a result of
dynamic indentation (63–500 m/s) by tungsten carbide spheres are defined. Microscopy of …

The impact response of silicon carbide ceramics is a key issue due to the fact that they are
increasingly used in lightweight armor solutions. In the present work, four silicon carbides …